Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-07
HOW THE NEW INCOME TAX WILL BE LEVIED
AND WHAT REVENUE IT Is EXPECTED TO YIELD

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the right to claim the following addi-
uonal exemptions:
Necessary expense of carrying on
business, not including personal. living
or family expenses.
Interest paid out of indebtedness.
National, state, county, school or
municipal taxes paid within the year
Trade losses, or storm or fire
losses, not covered by Insurance
Worthless debts charged of during
the year.
A reasonable allowance for the de-
probation OF property.
Dividends from companies whose in
comes have already been taxed
Interest from state, municipal or
government bonds.
Must be Entire "Net Income"
1t is a clear provision of the law,
however, that the taxable person must
make return to the internal revenue
collector for his entire met income, "
and exemptions claimed under the law
must be submitted to the federal off,
GERS for them to determine upon their
reasonableness or legality.
The amount of the income tax, as
finally agreed upon, follows:
From $4,000 to $4,000, 1 per cent;
from $4,000 to $4,000, 2 per cent. J;
from $4,000 to $4,000, 8 per cent. /;
from $4,000 to 100000, per cent. !;
500, 900 to $25O,OOO, per cent; $780,
900 to 100000, 6 per cent; above
100000, Z per cent.
A single man with an income OF
$4,000, for example would pay 1 PEI
cent on $4,000 and per cent on $500.
a total tax of 1910. II married, the
first tax Of per cent. would apply to
only $4,000 of the income.
Ready to Answer Questions.
The treasury department is prepar
ing for a food Of questions about the
new income tax, realizing that this
feature of the tariff bill about to be
come law strikes more intimately al
the tax paying citizen than do the
indirect taxes collected through the
customs duties.
One az the first steps taken to get
general information before the public
will be to distribute income tax blanks
through postoflces, internal revenue
officers, and other federal agencies
However, the fact that he does not re
ceive blank or a request to pay the
tax will not exempt a taxable person
from the penalties of the law.
Representative Cordell Hull of Ten
nessee, who drew the income tax pro
vision of the tariff bill which will soor
become law, made public detailed
explanation of the tax plan as 1t will
touch the individual citizen.
"The treasury regulations soon tt
be prepared will make clear to every
taxpayer the requirements Of the Law
and its application to income derived
from the various kinds of business,
Mr.. Hull said. Amy person who keeps
familiar with his business affairs, dur
ing the year should have no difficulty
IN executing his tax return.
How Tax Is Divided.
The income tax is divided into two
phases, the normal tax of one pei
cent. on the whole income above
$4,000, and the additional tax that be
gins with an extra one per cent. above
$4,000 and is graduated to six pei
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income tax is paid at the source by &
corporation for it's employees or in SINH
lar cases, only the one per cent. nor
NAL tax is so paid
The individual has to pay any a
ditional tax himself. The provisions
of the law requiring the tax to BIZ
withheld at the source does not take
effect until November /, 1913.
For the first year the citizen will
make return to the local internal reve
as to his earnings from March 1, 1913
to the end of this year. The collector
will notify him June / how muef
he owes and the tax must be paiC
by June So After next year the tar
will apply on the full calendar year.
''If the income of person is unde'
$4,000, or If the tax upon same is
withheld for payment at the source
or if the same is to be paid elsewhere
in the United States, aff1Gavit may be
made to such fact and thereupon nc
return will be required.
Covers Incomes of All Citizens.
The tax covers all incomes of citi
zens of the United States, whether liv
ing here or abroad; those of foreign
ers living in the United States, and
the net incomes from property owned
or business carried on in the United
States by persons living abroad.
The net income includes all In
come from salaries or any compensa
ton for personal services; incomes
from trades, professions, business, OIL
commerce; from sales or dealings IL
personal property or real estate; from
interest, rent, dividends from securi
ties; for all business carried on fol
gain.
requests will not be considered in.
come, nor will life insurance paid to
beneficiary or returned to the in
sured person as a paid up or sur
rendered policy be taxable. Interest
on such property will be included as
income, however.
The amount that may be deducted
from total income includes the cost