Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-28
sl0,0OO,000 IN
ONE LONG LINE
Office of Internal Revenue Col
lector Mobbed by Throng to
Declare Financial Standing.
CORPORATION TAX ANNOUNCED
Tremendous investments Represented
At Office on Last Day of Filing
Worried Capitalists.

len million dollars In an elongated
row was the unique experience OF the
Fourth floor of the federal building THIS
morning when the office of the collector
OF internal revenue. Edward H. Cal
lister. who represents Utah, Idaho 81.
wyoming. was fairly mobbed by
gathering which desired to whisper irf
Mr. Callisters ear something which
Uncle Sam desires to know under tile
new corporation tax law. Today was
the last day on which this information
could be filed and the internal revenue
Office furnished a scene in comparison
to which suffragette meeting in Lon
don would be Sunday school
There was many worried face about
the city this morning when business
men. absorbed in their own particular
lines, finally realized that the lines In
which they were Interested came under
the workings OF the law Legal lights
spent busy morning giving advices
and then there WAS q general STAN
pedc for the internal revenue office
Here there were. in addition to Mr..
CaIIister. six deputies, a stenographer
and girl to answer the telephone. The
last named was the busiest of all, and
the collector acquired a number 9f
lines In his face which have not here
tofore characterized that portion OF his
physiognomy.
OFFICE is SwAMPED.
'Its been something fierce" said SIr.
Calllster. as he mopped his grow. Be
tween the mail and personal applica-
tons we have simply been swamped.
just look at that row out there and
he indicated a Ions line of impatient
hnanciers. and their representatives
That is what it has been all day long.
There has been no lot-up and | don't
think that we VIII bc able TO get out
OF here before midnight we can't put
on any more help anc everybody seems
10 have waited for the last day To
make their declarations
The mail? Well every communica
tion received will be stamped with the
date and when we have time to ciea-
up things they Will be given credit as
being received ON this day They Will
be within the pale OF the law But shero
are going to be hundreds of business
concerns. as it appears To me. which
viii be liable To that fine OF $1,000 for
not complying with the law And
want to say that IL 1t had not been
for the press the trouble would have
Dcen MUCH more tNltnSlNe IL SftiiiS W
me that fully half OF the business peo-
pie OF the country do not keep track
of federal laws"
The corporation tax law provides for
fine of ut least $1,000 on all busl-
nesses which do not declare their In
comes. together With other date. be-
fore March l. This includes practi-
cally every business concern. with any
income. IS. 900 or less. The general mis-
conception in regard to the provisions
OF the law has led to a terrible miXup
and to general CONSERVATION when,
during the last 10 days the real import
of the law finally began to be as
simulated by the business men. 1t is
probable that 1t will take month
for the revenue Office to straighten out
matters and then II is entirely prob
able that there will be trouble for n
number of businesses In the inter-
mountain west which have not conf
piled with the law.