Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1917 — Internal Revenue Collector. [ARTICLE]

Internal Revenue Collector.

Indianapolis, Dec. 24.- —It will require a small army of men to take the incoihe tax returns of persons subject to the new law. Collector of Internal Revenue Peter J. Kruyer today announced that thirty-six officers will start from his headquarters on January Ist, and on January 2 every one of them’ will be on the job in the county assigned him, to meet the people and help them make, out their income tax returns. The officer assigned to this county is due to arrive here on Jan; 21, and to remain until Jan. 31. He will have his office in Rensselaer, in Postoffice building, where he may be found ev- [ ery day of the dates stated. “It will be well for every unmari ried person whose net income for 1917 is SI,OOO or over, and every married person living with wife or husband whose net income for 1917 is $2,000 or over, to call on the income tax man and learn whether or not they have any tax to pay,” Collector Kruyer said today. “The person subject to tax who doesn’t make return in the time prescribed is going to regret it. The Government will get after all income tax slackers.

“There’s hardly a business man, merchant or professional man who won’t have to make return of income. Farmers, as a class, will have to pay the tax. The safe thing to do is for every person who had a total income of SI,OOO or $2,000, as the case may be, and who is not sure about what deductions the law allows him, to play it safe by calling pn the income tax man. “The man in the field will have forms for everybody and persons who expect to call on him need not trouble themselves to write to my office for forms.”