Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-03-31

Tlin INCOME TAN
Preparations Being Made to Enforce
ITS Provisions. x

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Comptroller General IA. W.. Jones
has sent out the following letter to-
Auditors all over South Carolina:
TO County Auditors Under the
Code: of Laws OF South Carolina,
Sections 276 and $40, the Comptrol-
ler General is required to prepare.
and transmit Instructions to carry
into erect the provisions of the tax
laws, and to decide all questions
which may arise as to the true con-,
structioh OF the same.
The instructions thus given shall
be obeyed by, and the decisions thus
made shall be binding upon all coun-.
sty, town and municipal officers.
sBy virtue of the authority vested
by law in the Comptroller General
with the approval of the Governor,
the time for making the income tax
returns are hereby extended to May
i, 1909, After that date, the PEN
atty of so per cent must attach upon
all who shall have then failed or re-
fused to make such returns.
Immediately upon receipt of these
instructions, you are directed to pre-
pare a list of all persons who You.
may believe are liable for the income
tax. In preparing this list you should
call on and consult with the mem
bers of the county and township
boards OF assessors, and such citizens
as may in your opinion have informa-
tion touching the income of those liza
BILE. You are further directed to
place In the hand of each person so.
listed an income tax blank and re-
quire such person to fill out said re-
turn and swear to same.
"In case any person refuse or
fail to- file or swear to said return
proceed to assess lne amount of their,
income upon information and belief,
and add thereto penalty of SO per
cent ard charge the aggregate upon
your tax duplicate
5 On May J. you are required to file
with the Comptroller General dupli-
Gates of the above lists, together with
a statement as to each taxpayer,
showing the action taken by him.
very truly, A. w. Jones.
Comptroller General"
approve the extension of time to
make the returns referred to.
M. II, Ansel, Governor.
s4s. In the year just passed, according
to the report from the Office of the
Comptroller General the following
were the receipts from the income tax
collections:
Abbeville SAT, Aiken S116.45. An
derson 5000, Charleston $3,577. 40,
Cherokee $10L18, Chester S10.14.
'Edgefield $247.55, Fairfield S41.06ss
Georgetown S286.03, Greenyille $21,3
Kershaw $1I4.85, Lancaster $5S.27,
Lexington $57.50, Marion $36.25,
Marlboro $36, Newberry $2O5.91,
Oconee Sill, SO; Orangeburg $124.3S.
Richland 1,191,49,i iSpartanburg ST.
401.04, Sumter S323.93, Union
$325.50, York $211.20. Total $S,-
554.SS. ~
Requirements of the Law.
The law requires the return of all,
regular business and investment In
come from all sources, except from
non-taxable bonds, except that actu-
al business expenses or the cost of
making the income may be deducted.
You cannot deduct any invest,
ments you may make In stocks,
bonds, property, life insurance or
building or loan companies, for such.
investments represent income.
After ascertaining your net in
come as above defined, $4,000 is
deducted as being non-taxabIe.
income from investments in other
States is taxable at the residence OF
the citizen. In law the residence of
the husband is the residence of the
wife.
81 The reluctance in making these
returns is realized, and for the rea-
son that the laws enforcement has
been lax throughout the State, no
penalty will be attached In case you
comply by May 1st Otherwise the