The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-27
Everyone Who Has Income
Exceeding $4,000.
PAY ONE Per CENT
1t Is Two Per Cent on Excess
of $4,000.
Estimated This Would Catch
100 Shawnee People.

How many persons in Topeka Will
be affected by the income tax, about
to become a federal law? State,
county and city officials, whose sal
aries are not taxable, are making esti-
mates. J. L. Kelsey, deputy internal
revenue collector, recently spent sew
erai days in Topeka glancing over the
records of the county assessor, and
taking notes. If the bill passes in
it's present form, as modified by the
senate, everybody with an income
above $4,000 must divide with the
government.
Internal Revenue Collector Leidy,
soon to be succeeded by w. H. l.. Pep
perell, has four deputies in the state.
J. L. Kelsey, who covers the north
east quarter of Kansas, is stationed
at Leavenworth. He has been in
structed to canvass his district and
estimate the number of persons liza
BILE under the provisions Of the income
tax.
hundred thousand-even a million
and yet be exempt under the new law.
Public salaries are excepted. State,
county and city officials need not
consider their salaries in stating their
income. The president of the United
States need not pay unless he has
other income than that provided by
the government. Coupons on govern
ment, state, township, city and school
district bonds are not taxable.
The sum originally set by the
house was $4,000, with a credit of
$500 for a man with a wife, and a
credit of $500 each for two children.
The bill, as it now stands, places
the tax on incomes in excess of $4,000,
1 per cent on the excess; incomes
above $4,000, per cent on the ex-
cess incomes above S50,O00, per
cent on excess.
Affects $50 Shawnee People.
1t is roughly estimated by officials
interested in the law that Topeka has
$50 persons in the first class, 100 in
the second and possibly three in the
third
The revenue men will be kept busy
adjusting their lists, which will vary
each year. A physician, for instance,
may receive twice as much one year
as he receives another-depends, part
ly, upon his number of appendicitis
operations. A farmers income varies
with his crops. A cattleman who net
ted $4,000 in 1912 may find himself in
the hole this fall.
Approximately $50 persons in Shaw
nee county will be affected by the
new law This was the estimate of
Deputy Internal Revenue Collector
Kelsey. County Clerk o. K. Swayze
set the number of persons affected in
Topek a alone at $50, a lower esti
mate than that of other guessers who
at least included in the provisions of
the bill.
The number in the $4,000 list was
placed at 100. 1t was hazarded, at the
most, only three Topekans would be
taxa BILE under the provisions for in
comes above $50, ,000-John r. Null |
vane, A. A. Robinson and Charles |
Wolf.
would hardly set the number af-
fected by the $4,000 provisions as
high as 1907 was the cautious es- |
innate of Fred Robertson, United |
States district attorney, .'if there were |
100 men with incomes of $4,000, |
here ought to be 1000 men with in |
comes of s1O,000-and there aren't |
Personally, I don't believe anyone in |
Topeka would be included in the $780, |
100 class"
Those in the $4,000 Glass.
Those affected by the $4,000 stipu-
alton would include various doctors,
dentists, merchants, lawyers, farmers
md few druggists.
Among the names supplied by |
courthouse officials in the $4,000 list |
ire the following: J. r. Mulvane, w. |
". T. Crosby, ]. c. McClintock, j. r.
Tassler, J. c.. Gafford, Joab Mulvane,
Arthur Capper, Frank P. MacLennan,
2. E. Ames, G. w. Snyder, w. w.
Mills, William Macferran, P. 1. BoIfe-
brake, Mrs. Warren Crosby, F. NJ.
3onebrake, Fred Freeman, J. w.
rhurston,. H. A. Auerbach. NJ. F.
Edwin Arnold and Thomas
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