Fifty Million
Tax Headaches
By NED NORDNESS
WASHINGTON—Timothy Tax
payer had one headache—the Bu
reau of Interna] Revenue has 50,
000,000. T. T. may have thought
the chore was finished when he
mailed that diary of his earnings
to the bewhiskered gent with the
bottomless money bag. The Bu
reau laughs hollowly and rolls up
its collective sleeves. The job has
just begun.
It will ta're the Internal Rev
enue office the better part of a
year, and in some cases three
years, to wade through the 50.
000,000 returns. The Bureau’s
job this year is more complicated
than ever because some 16,000,
000 taxpayers are expec’ed to
claim refunds.
Refunds To New York
As Timothy Taxpayer relaxes
over a stimulant of double
strength, let us follow his return
through the Bureau of In4ernal
Revenue.
He claims a refund so his re
turn is sent to the Bureau’s pro
cessing division in New York, an
office opened this year to handle*
refunds and to assemble wage and
tax information on all taxpayers.]
If Mr T.axpayer had been a
non-refund claimant of large in
come his return would have been
sent to Washington or had Tim
othy, a man of average income,;
not claimed a refund, it would
have remained in the regional
collector's office in his home dis
trict.
In New York are gathered gov
ernment copies of: (1) wage slips,
listing salary paid and taxes
withheld by employers in 1943,
(2) the 1942 taxes-paid slips sent
by the In4ernal Revenue office
to all taxpayers, <31 all Sept. 15
declarations of 1943 income.
These are filed under social
security numbers to eliminate er
rors arising from similar names,
and are then distributed to region
al offices or the Washington bu
reau if no refund is involved.
The slips are tallied against
the taxpayer’s statements in his
return of wages received and
taxes paid. If they jibe, well and
good. If not, the matter must
be straightened out.
Machine Calculators
In Timothy’s case the figures
are accurate, so his return is
examined for arithmetic with a
calculating machine. It passes the
examination in fine fashion and
is turned over to an auditor, who
checks deductions and contribu
tions.
Timothy Taxpayer is an honest
man; he has deducted no more
than he was supposed to, so his
blank is filed away, the regional
collector is notified and in due
time T. T. gets his refund. Had
he been in error arithmetically,
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Treasury Boss MORGENTHAU
"It's His Worry Now
the return would have been re
turned to the regional collector
who in turn would go over the
error with him.
Those returns not claiming re
funds also are examined arithme
tically, and the great majority of
all returns are investiga’ed for
honesty in claimed exemptions
and deductions.
This auditing of returns for
accuracy, in deductions and ex
emptions is the last general step.
Of*en, discrepancies are found in
favor of the taxpayer, who is
pleasantly surprised to receive
a check for the amount he over
paid. This works two ways, how
ever. Other taxpayers have »o
dig deeper.
Ten Per Cent Gags
Life is not entirely devoid of
laughs and humor for the govern
ment headache gang. One avf
age wage earner listed $500 as
con’ribution to his church. The
Internal Revenue employe who
examined the return was a mem
ber of the same church. He call
ed the taxpayer and told him:
*“1 attend that church and con
tribute $1 a week. I happen to
know there is no need to con
tribute more so that is all you
get credit for.”
In another case a middie group
taxpayer marked down a movie
tax of $260. The tax being 10
per cent of the whole, the Bu
reau came to the conclusion the
taxpayer would have had to at
tend nearly two movies a day for
the year.
The auditor knocked off the
credit, swallowed another aspirin
and lighted into another return.
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LITERARY
GUIDEPOST
By JOHN SELBY
'•PROFILE BY GASLIGHT," edit
ed by Edgar W. Smith (Simon Sc
Schuster; $2.75): "SHERLOCK
HOLMES AND DR. WATSON."
edited by Christopher Morley
(Harcourt, Brace); $2).
For a select group known about
New York as the Baker Street
Irregulars, a miracle has happen
ed; a literary crea’ion has turn
ed into a living man. This pro
cess has produced an actual Sher
lock Holmes, and he. in turn, has
been responsible for a book called
“Profile by Gaslight.’’ Indeed, I
do not know any other living man
who has the recent record of hav
ing been the subject of three
books in two weeKs besides “Pro
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file by Gas Light.” There are also
Christopher Morley's Sherlock
Holmes and Dr. Watson,” and El
lery Queen’s “The Misadventures
of Sherlock Holmes.”
The “Profile” is a collection of
essays, narratives and even verse
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ered with unfrowning erudi'ion.
Howard Haveraft’s share is called
‘The Profile Emerges.” Howard
Collins writes about Sherlock’s
b(>ok'; Dr George F. McCleary,
his alleged addict on to drugs;
Charles Honce produces vivid
testimony on the phenomenon 'hat
Holmes is one of the most writ
ten about men we have, although
he is in “retiremen* Even Hoi
mes' teeth are gone into, in a
literary sense, by Dr. Charles
Goodman.
And Dr. Watson l.-. combed over.
S'ephen Vincent Benet’s shor*
piece is in that section. Rex Stout
buttresses his thesis that Watson
was a woman (heresy, this), and
Dorothy L. Sayers contributes a
piece on the good doctor’s Chris
tian name. His own wife called
him James, once, although every
body knows it should have been
John. This and much more, all ;n
great good humor.
“Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Wat
son” is something quite different.
This is a collection of five Holmes
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tales, edited by Mr. Morley for
use, I am told, in high schools.
He also considers Holmes and
Watson actual people, bu* w.th a
two-fold purpose. Their exploits
are fun, of course, but Mr. Morley
believes the stories are also per
fect pictures of late Victorian
London. His footnotes are many
scholarly and good-humored.
They complete the Victorian pic
ture for a generation to whom it
is a textbook term.
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