Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1910 — Rich Sugar Trust is Shown Dodging Corporation Tax. [ARTICLE]

Rich Sugar Trust is Shown Dodging Corporation Tax.

The American Sugar Refining Co., popularly known as the sugar trust, pays no corporation tax. This combine was compelled to restore to the government $3,000,000 stolen in custom frauds, and the leading officers convicted and imprisoned, and it is now being prosecuted by the U. S. at-torney-general as an illegal trust, has been escaping corporation taxation on the basis of not earning more than $5,000 per year. Extensive prosecution will follow.