People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — TO MAKE REBATES. [ARTICLE]

TO MAKE REBATES.

CommiMioner of Internal Revenue Miller Explains. Washington, May 21.—" Up to date we have collected between $70,000 and SBO,000 on account of the income tax,” remarked Commissioner of Internal Revenue Miller, “every cent of which must be returned to the persons who paid these assessments. No legislation by congress will be necessary, for under the law the commissioner of Internal revenue, subject to regulations prescribed by the secretary of the treasury, is authorized on appeal made to him to pay back all taxes erroneously or Illegally assessed, or collected, all penalties collected without authority, and all taxes that appear to be unjustly assessed or excessive in amount, or in any manner wrongfully collected. There is a regular form provided for these refunds; all that is required of a claimant being a plain statement of facts as to tax payments made. I have telegraphed all collectors of internal revenue to forward at once to this office all income tax returns and everything else pertaining to the tax.”