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HOW INCOME
TAXES GET TO
GOVERNMENT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Of the
$17.‘>,000.000 personal income tax co'
lected for the fiscal year 1016, invest
ors and speculators in all fiehls shoul
dered just one-third of the burden,
labor .086 per cent of it. and the he
mainder came from the multitudinous
ranks of those whose incomes were
classed as derived from “business”
and “service”.
Kmbraced within the latter classes
is every calling from that of banker
to the farmer with a scant acre, and
in the professions, from the practi
tioner of international law to the mod
-est chiropodist.
Ninety per cent of the total tax was
derived from those fulsome incomes
of more than $25,000, ami 1.66 pei
cent from those of the $5,000 class
and less, although the latter const:-,
tutod more than a third of the total
4.’17,000 returns. The highest average
rate of tax actually paid upon net in
come subject to tax was 12.0 per cent,
which fell upon the highest income
class of $5,000,000 and over. Only ten
individuals, however, bore the burden
of that rate. They contributed $10,
000,000 to the total tax. The aver- j
age rate of tax paid declined through
the income classes to a minimum of
.2$ per cent for the $3,000 to $4,000
class.
Although incomes of $100,000 and
more constituted only 1.5 per cent of
the total number of returns, they paid
nearly three fourths of the total tax.
“Property” income from stocks
bonds, rents, royalties and all money
one-half of the net total of $6 000,000
reported, even in the face of the ex
emption dividends, amounting to ex
actly a third of the total net income
returned- bore nearly its proportion
ate one-half of the total tax because
of the much higher proportion of
“property” income in the returns cf
the higher income classes, paying the
heavier rates of tax. Incomes from
“business” and “service” footed the
remainder of the tax bill.
As an evidence of the inducements
to thrift in matrimony, the returns ot
married men, making due deduction
for joint returns oi husoand and wile,
indicated their wealth at more than
five times that of single men, as
! shown by their returns, the formei
bearing a coresponding buden ol the
tax except fo exemption in the $11,000
to $4,000 class, amounting to about 0
per cent of their total income re
ported.
Although for the country at large
i!u* returns of single men were double
those of single women, the six New
Kngland stales were a conspicuous
exception to the rule. The total in
come reported by single men in that
section exceeded by barely 15 per cent
the total income by single women,
bearing testimony either to the su
I erior independence and earning ca
acity of ih New Kngland women or
i > a reluctance to share inherited
i ichcs in matrimony. The District of
v'olumbia and Hawaii were also con*
. pieious in that respect, showing
.bout equal returns for single mer.
| and women.
A sinking eccentricity in the report
.tae return ol the skilled and un
xdul lanor class of twenty-two in
tomes above the $60,000 maik, five o;
i.iem being above $100,000. Two hun
» red and eighty labor returns were
above $10,000.
hour commercial travelers showed
iconics of over $100,000, as did two
©aioonkeepers, one professional sport,
man, eighteen hotel proprietors and
I twenty-two insurance agents. Actor©
.tiger© and musicians to the number
' f l>14 showed a total income of $11,*
*2£,U0O, a net ave rage of over $l2,uU0.
and a possibility to stimulate th'
•ther 170,000 not making returns
rive of these incomes were over $150.
000. In the class of authors, editors
and rcpoiters there were sixteen in
comes of better than $100,000. and
two above $500,000. Twelve ministers
of the gospel showed incomes of more
than $50,000.
The legal profession earned tlu»
greatest total incomes among profes
sions, although the average ;ncomcs
among engineers weref higher.
Of th»* 23,000 maiufacturers in the
country in 1010.one in every ten made
r 'turns, paying a total of 12 per cent
of the tax; of the merchants, one in
t'n made returns; paying 12.5 per
cent of the tax; of commission brok
ers in all fields, one in five, paying
S per cent; real estate brokers, one
in four, paying'0.83 per cent lawyers
ami judges,- one in l ive, paying 2.6
per cent; mine owners and operators,
one in six, paying 4 per cent. One
furmet in about every four hundred
made returns, paying an aggregate
<> 1 p*» cent of the tax; one eacher
in e\er\ two hundred, one clergyman
in about every seventy-five.
The three states reporting the
greatest incomes were, in the order
of their returns New York, Pennsyl
vania and Illinoise. New York, with
nearly two billions, reported almost a
third of the total returns. This, how
ever, is no4 an accurate indication of
the wealth of a state, for persons file
returns wherever they reside, regard -
le s of where their investments or
properties are It is a fairly accurate
indication, however, of where that
much income is spent.
The net personal income reported
in 1016 totaled $6,300,000,000, an in
crease of $2,400,000,000 over 1013, or
about 40 per cent.
Corporate returns for 1016 showed
a total net income of $8,700,000,000.
I n increase of more than three bil
lions over 1015, and five billions over
!>14, or more than 100 per cent. Of
! *iie 241.000 corporations reporting, 40
| per cent shwed no net earnings.
' which, however, was a lower percent
ige than in proceeding years.
Of the $172 000,000 corporate tax
ollected I7.r> per cent of it \vas
Pawn from public utilities, 13 per
ent from iron and steel production,
• ml 0 pm* an4 from mineral opeva
‘ions. The remainder came large’v
’mm miscellaneous manufacturing in
iustries, hanking and insurance com
panies and merchandising companies.
ZOWiE
The following is clipped from a re
is<ue of the Seattle Daily limes.
DENVER, Colo., To “mush” 121
1 miles over fields of ice and snow, tra
vel thousands of miles by foot, rail
•md water and give up a $10,000 a
\ ear business that he and sixty of his
•ompanions might get in the ‘ hig
game" on the other side, is the ex
perience and sacrifice of Howard Rat
ten, who has reached Denver from
Alaska.
Ratten came home to enlist in the
Signal Corps. He was conducting a
store at Anchorage, Alaska, when he
and sixty other young business men
of the town decided to enlist.
Xow Howard l'atten and the others
did not mush P21 miles, by a long
‘shot. They only mushed perhaps half
that distance, for the bunch din ride
in honest to goodness railroad 'cars
‘or some of the distance out of An
horage, and did ride in railroad cars
rom Mile .72 to Seward. For good
ness sake, Howard Patten and the
thers, give the government some
•novlit ror at least doing a little sorno
hing towards railroad building in the
ast three years.
MILK IS ONLY
FOOD WITHOUT
A SUBSTITUTE
(By U. S. Food Administration.)
The war has taught us many things
| . bout food. It has taught us wc can
ubstitute coin, barley, lice and other
cereals for wheat without injury to
>ur health. It has taught us that we
an substitute milk, cheese, nuts and
pgs for meat, and sirups for sugar.
But there is one food for which
neither this war nor any wars will ev
, t teach us to use as a substitute.
AMERICAN GENERAL CONGRATULATES MEN ON A TRENCH RAID
The daring of the American lighters in t rance has been rewarded and commended In various ways. Some ol
the men have been decorated with the french war (Voss. Yet a lighter delights In having his commanding officer j
personally congratulate him for exceptional valor, (ieneml Edwards, showu In this picture, realizes that his incn
want his thunks. So w\*n a raiding party composed of his men carried out a successful raid on enemy trenches he
gathered the men around aud shook the hand of each.
GETTING AID FOR POLAND
1 Working in harmony with tin* Younp
Women’s Christian association. Count*
css Laura de Gozdnwa Turczynowlcz
ts organizing ihe Polish Gray Snuiuri*
tans. She is pictured here in her uni
form as a captain In that organization.
She Is also president of tin* Polish re
construction committee and author of
“When the Prussians Came to Po
land.” The Samaritans are all Polish
women recruited In the United States
to do nursing and social welfare work.
When th«»ir Instruction Is completed
ihoy will go to Poland to do recon
stru- tlon work or to serve In the hos
pitals.
This food is milk. Milk is the one
food of universal necessity for child
ren. It contains all the necessary
food elements, and there is no substi
tute for it. It is, in fact, the one
food which is culled “perfect.”
Unfortunately, however, milk is. of
ten considered only a beverage, in
stead of a highly nourishing food. For
this reason when the price of milk
goes up a cent or two many house
wives reduce their milk orders.
Put this is not true economy, for
milk at any price is the cheapest ani
mal food. Twenty-five cents worth of
.it will give more energy than 25 cents
worth of meat, eggs or fish.
GERMANY MAINTAINS MILK
Children and invalids should have
plenty of milk. Geimany was one of
the first to recognize the absolute
necessity of this, and in spite of her
milk shortage she maintained at all
hazards the full milk ration for Ger
man children and for German hospit
als.
This country is more fortunately j
situated than the other warring coun
tries, for we are able to give milk !
freely, not only to our own children
and invalids, but to all consumers. We
must, of course, guard against waste. !
TRUE ECONOMY
Regarding prices, we must realize* J
that labor and cattle feed have been
high for months, and the dairyman
has his own overhead expenses in- \
creased enormously.
llut the intelligent housewife will ,
1 realize that true economy will not al
low any reduction in the family’s use
of m.ilk, no matter what the price is.
Economy will lead hei always to buy
whole milk instead of cream, for the
skim milk left in the creamery is of
ten wasted. Take the top of the bot
tles for cereals, coffee and the like,
have plenty for the children to drink
use sour milk and whey in cooking,
and make cottage cheese often to use
in place of meat.
THIS FELLOW
HAS ONE BIG
LEAD CINCH
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LONDON, Aug. 20.— Under the j
new election law, the smallest village;
in England is Hopwas-Hayes in South I
Staffordshire, which contain only one
voter. He constitutes the town meet
ing, of which he is both chairman and
clerk, nominating and electing himself j
to both offices. He must audit his own ;
account j and present them to the ,au- f
thorities for apphova!.
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If a man has plenty of change in
his. pockets when he goes to bod his !
wife may not have occasion to asL
him for pin money.
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