Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1910 — New Way to Swear Off Taxes. [ARTICLE]

New Way to Swear Off Taxes.

The best way of not paying taxes on your personal property is to swear them off. By “swearing off” is meant going to the tax assessor and making a deposition that you really don’t live where you seem to live, that you really don’t own what you seem to own, and that, while you appaer to beivery rich man, you are really overburdened by debts which you have hitherto successfully concealed. Since personal taxes began, so many wayß of swearing off have been Invented that the tax authorities had come to believe that there was no new tax dodge under the ion. :. But the tay authorities were mistaken. A few days ago a man came to the New York tax commissioners and asked to be relieved of his personal taxes. “I have only $5,000,” hh said, “and that money is in city bonds and 1b being held in trust.” “For whom?” asked the tax commissioner. The question was unexpected and at first there was no answer, but the tax commissioner -insisted. Finally, in a stage whisper, the swearer-off explained: “The money is held in trust during his lifetime —for my dog."—Success Magazine.