Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1916 — UNCLE SAM WANTS HIS FROM $3,000 INCOMES [ARTICLE]

UNCLE SAM WANTS HIS FROM $3,000 INCOMES

Government is Going to Get Busy and Expects to Increase Receipts From Incomes. Another —this time officials say it will be the real thing—drive against those citizens of the United States who earn in excess of $3,000 annually, is being planned. The object, commissioner of internal revenue W. H. Osborn frankly states, is to increase the revenue of the government by one-third the amount at present coming in under the income tax. In order to devise the best way of collecting all of the tax the commissioners have sent word to fifty of the most experienced agents and collectors to report in Washington on October 1. They will then discuss ways and means of ascertaining all persons liable to the tax so that it can be collected. In this connection, it is said by the treasury officials, that they are convinced that several millions of dollars have not been turned in simply because of ignorance of the law by the persons liable to the tax. It is to remedy this condition that the department is now planning.