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

The collection of the income tax
Nll. he 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
with money from the tax, lot Of
good men are going to be on the
ragged edge of desperation. Collect :
or Balock does not know just what
the income tax is, and he isn't bash =
fu about saying so. Perhaps the gem
emen 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
income tax say that it is going to
cause more problems than the Su-
preme Court will be capable OF SOW
ing in a decade.
The theory OF the Urea sury De-
partment is delightfully."- direct and
simple. II is simply Get the money"
Whose money is to be got, or from
whom it is to be got are things that
do not worry the Federal officials.
Says Collector Balock:
The lax will be due Just because
Of 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 woman. and she must line up anG
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
mere win be hundreds of Atiantans
who will wish they were not exempt.
Unless man who is single has more
Than $4,000 yearly income he doesn't
LlYe to pay the tax, and If married
, o is allowed 81 900 more income than
lhe single fellow
Tho normal tax of 1 per cent vii.
J." imposed upon individual net in
ones 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-
tpnal tax, ranging from | to per
ent. viii be imOCsed upon all taxa
lie re. incomes exceeding $4,000.
Tlis additional tax is graduated and
evisd as follows: One per cent on
I'll amounts exceeding 500 0O0. but not
exceeding $4,000; per cent on all
amounts exceeding. s50,0O0. but not
,.,ccedi2s $4,000: per cent on all
%a'1G1;s exceeding $4,000. but not
tyaeedine 100000; 4 per cent ON all
amounts exceeding 100000. but moi
c":cedinS s250.000; per cent on all
amounts exceeding $4,000, but not
exceeding 100000.
MANY Governments Have Tax.
Income taxation is now an estab-
lisled part of the fiscal machinery OF
ma iority OF the leading govern
mcnts including Great Britain and its
constituencies the German Empire,
Austria Hungary, Switzerland, Italy,
spain and Japan. The beginning OF
Inc income tax is found in series
Of income inposts which were inau-
suratcd in most of the indepeuuent
Italian cities in the fifteenth century.
Income taxation in America dates
back to the Colonial period. The first
lsw of this kind was passed in 1926
by the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Court OF Assistants who 'eby the
produce Of estates was taxed.
The income tax law is a Part Of
The Underwood Simmons itvlff law,
and was approved on the Sd of this
month Representative Cordell Hui,
Of Tennessee, was the original drafts
man of the measure.