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

The collection of the income tax
Nnl be in full swing in Atlanta by
January, according to Collector of
Internal Revenue A. O. Blalock.
Before the Government buys any
battleships or pays any big salaries
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
temen who framed the law know all
about the income tax, but it is not
generally believed that anyone else
does.
Some CT the gentlemen who have
read quantities of literature on the
sfncome tax say that it is going to
cause more problems than the Su-
ureme Court will be capable OF solv-
ing in decade.
The theory of the Treasury De-
partmenr is delightfully."- direct and
simple 1t is simply Get the money"
Whose money is to be got, or from
WHOM Ii is " DS SOl, dIe lIillSS ludL
do not worry the Federal officials.
Says Collector Blalock:
THE tax will be due Just because
ht is due, and when the time comes
for collecting, the parties who owe
the tax bills will 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 tax. The law does not exempt
the wonlan n, and she must line up and
pay her income tax just the same as
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 q man who is single has more
than $4,000 yearly income he doesn't
have to pay the tax and If married
e is allowed $1,000 more income than
The single fellow.
The normal tax of / per cent viii
he imposed upon individual net in
comes exceeding the specific eXemp-
lion, which is $4,000 for the single
man or woman and $4,000 for the
married man or woman. The addi-
ional tax, ranging from / to 6 per
cent. Will be imposed upon all taxa
BE ret incomes exceeding $4,000
This additional tax is graduated and
levied as follows: One per cent on
Ill amounts exceeding 500 000. but not
exceeding $4,000; per cent on all
amounts exceeding $50,0O0, but not
exceeding $4,000; per cent on all
a,23ou1ts exceeding $4,000, but not
exceeding 100000; per cent on all
amounts exceeding 100000. but not
eEaeedins s250.000; per cent on all
amounts exceeding $4,000, bat not
exceeding 100000
MANY Governments Have Tax.
Income taxation is now an estab-
lisleG part of the fiscal machinery Of.
a majority OF the leading govern
ments. including Great Britain and it's
constituencies, the German Empire,
Austria Hungary, Switzerland, Italy.
Spain and Japan. The beginning OF
The income tax is found in series
Of income irposts which We're inau-
Suratcd in most of the independent
Italian cities in the fifteenth century.
Income taxation III America dates
back to the Colonial period. The first
law of this kind was passed in 1926
by the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Court or Assistants, whereby tho
produce Of estates was taxed.
The income tax law is a part Of
the Underwood Simmons ltriff law,
and was approved on the Sd of this
month Representative COrdel HUI,
Of Tennessee, was the original ulafts-
man Of the measure.