Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-29
ATLANTANS PAY
INCOME TAX IN
JANUARY
Collector BIalock Declares He
viii Collect, but That Is
All He Knows.

The collection Of the income tax
will he IN full swing In Atlanta by
January, according TO Collector OF
Internal Revenue A o Blslock
Before the Government buys any
hat'leships or pays any big salaries
with money from the tax, a lot Of
good men are going to be on the
ragged edge OF desperation. Collect
or Blalock does not know Just what
the income tax is, and he isn't bash
ful about saying so. Perhaps the gen
tlemen who framed the law know all
about the income tax, but It is not
generally believed that anyone else
does.
Some Of the gentlemen who have
read quantities Of literature on the
income tax say that It is going to
cause more problems than the SUI
rrer1e Court will be capable OF solv-
ing in a decade.
The theory OF the Treasury De-
partment is delightfully."- direct and
simple. II is simply Get the money.
Whose money is to ne got. or from
whom Il is to be got, are things that
DO not worry the Federal officials.
SAYS Collector Blalock:
THE tax will be due just because
II is due. and when the time comes
for collecting. the parties who owe
the tax hills win come through-or
we will know the reason why"
Women Are Not Exempt.
There is one known feature about
the law which makes the rich old
bachelor feel good when he pays his
income tex. The law does not exempt
rhe woman. and she must line up and
pay her income tax just the same az
she wants to line up at the polls and
cast her vote.
And when the law is enforced here
there will be hundreds Of Atlantans
who will wish they were not exempt.
Unless a man who IL single has more
than SO, 900 yearly income no doesn't
have TO pay the tay, and n married
he is allowed 81 900 more income than
the single fellow
The normal tax of per cent will
be imposed upon individual net In
comes exceeding the specific exemp-
ton, which is $4,000 for the single
man or woman and $4,000 for. the
married man or woman. The add
tional tax, ranging from | to per
cent will be IMPOSED upon all taxa
HE net incomes exceeding $50 600
This additional ten Is graduated and
levied as follows: one per cent on
al amounts exceeding $4,000 but not
exceeding $4,000; . per cent on all
amounts exceeding $4,000 but not
exceeding $4,000: 3 per cent on all
amounts exceeding $4,000. but not
exceeding 100000; 4 per cent on all
amounts exceeding 100000 but not
exceeding $3.50 600. per cent on all
amounts exceeding $4,000, but not
exceeding 100000.
Many Governments Have Tax.
Income taxation is now an estab
q maiority OF the leading govern
ments. including Great Britain and its
constituencies, the German Empire.
Austria Hungary, Switzerland. Italy,
Spain and Japan. The beginning OF
the income tax is found in series
Of income inposts which were inau-
gurated In most of the Independent
Italian cities in the fifteenth century.
Income taxation in America dates
back TO the Colonial period. The first
law of this kind was passed In 1926
by the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Court of Assistants, whereby the
produce OF estates was taxed.
The income tax law Is a part OF
the Underwood simmons tariff law,
and was approved on the Sd of THE
month Representative Cordell Hull,
of Tennessee, was the original drafts
man of the measure.