Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1920 — MILLIONAIRES CAN’T PAY TAX [ARTICLE]

MILLIONAIRES CAN’T PAY TAX

More Than Score Seek in Vain for Extension of Time to Meet _ Levy on Incomes. - New York, Dec. 16. —More than a score of millionaires, whose 1919 incomes called for federal tax payments ranging from SIOO,OOO to $2,800,000, told William H. Edwards, collector of internal revenue, that they were unable to meet the last quarterly payment of the tax, due Wednesday. •These taxpayers told me they simply did not have the cash,” Mr. Edwards said. “They begged for an extension of time, which I was powerless to grant.”