The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-23
THIS IS LAST CALL
Kansas Corporations Must Set
tie With Uncle Sam.
He Is Making Ready to Open the
Battle.
MANY ARE BEHIND.
List of Four Hundred Delin-
Quents Made Up.
Subject to Fine Of a Thousand
Dollars for Neglect.
MANY ARE BEHIND.

Unless there is a decided hum of
activity in the next few weeks some
of the 400 Kansas corporations which
have not reported to the internal reve-
nue collector under the provisions of
the federal income tax will be subject
to a fine of $1,000 for their neglect
Already several typewriter pages of
names of delinquent Kansas concerns
are on file in the district attorneys
Office and there are daily responses to
the general notices sent broadcast over
the state.
When the books of the internal rev.
enue collector were closed March 1,
there were more than 1900 Kansas
firms and corporations which had not
remitted their income tax for the last
years assessment. That vas not all.
There were more than 400 firms and
corporations which had not filed their
reports. This was even a worse Of
fense.
No sooner had the district attor-
ney's Office put extra stenographers at
work checking and rechecking these
lists, than another consignment of
names came from the revenue col
lector's Office. These were names of
firms which had entirely overlooked
their reports.
According to the new law. a firm
which does not file its report with the
revenue collector on or before March
of each year is subject to a fine of
$1,000. Many of the Kansas corpora
tions did not Know this. AS soon as
they were apprised of the situation
there were more tickets sold to To-
peka from wayside points than in
many years past. Every day there is
delegation of breath1ess stock and
bond holders who sit anxiously in the
upholstered furniture of the district
attorneys office and inquire anxiously
just what method to pursue to escape
trouble.
Added to the unusually large num-
Der of visitors to the federal building
uals and firms concerning this new
law. These letters Indicate that the
majority of firms and corporations VIII
pay the income tax without trouble
from the governments attorneys. But
IN some instances the taxpayers are in
cline to argue the matter.
For two hours yesterday Senator
Fred Quincy, the wealthy Salina bank
er, sat in the district attorneys office
and perspired and fidgeted as he tried
with which he is associated did not
make their report. Quincy explained
why his Salina bank had overlooked
the statement. Then he told why his
building and loan association had for
gotten the report and found a ready
excuse why his cemetery association
did not file statement.
Quincy had rather tiresome two
hours, yet he was but one of the sew
eral hundred persons who have found
their way to the second floor of the
federal building to square things with
Uncle Sam. Quincy was followed by
a rather noisy little man from Allen
county who told why his company did
not make a report. When he left
Representative of a Sedgwick county
manufacturing concern had good ex-
cuse-
AS yet no cases have been filed
against the delinquent taxpayers. 1t
is the intention of the district attor-
ney's office to file as few suits as is
absolutely necessary to collect the
money. They realize that as yet the
law is but little understood in the
state Yet none of the Kansas corpor-
ations will be immune from punish
ment in case the federal income taxes
are met.