Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-30
ATLANTANS PAY
INCOME TAX IN
JANUARY
Collector BlaIock Declares He
viii Collect, but That Is
All He Knows.

The collection of the income ia,
will be in full swing in Atlanta BY
January, according to Collector o
Internal Revenue A. o Blalock.
Before the Government buys any
battleshlps or pays any big salarIe'
with money from the tax, a lot o.
good men are going to be on The
ragged edge OF desperation. Collect
or Blalock does not know Just what
the income tax lie, and he isn't bash
full about saying so. Perhaps the gen
tlemen who framed the law know al
about the income tax, but 1t 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 Su-
preme Court will be capable OF soly-
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 be got, or from
whom II is to be got, are things that
do not worry the Federal officials
Says Collector Blalock:
The tax will be due Just because
1t 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 tex. The law does not exempt
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 We're not exempt.
Unless a man who is single has more
than SO, 900 yearly income he doesn't
have to pay the tax, and II married,
he is allowed 81 600 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
Bile net incomes exceeding $4,000.
This additional tax is graduated and
levied as follows: One per cent on
all amounts exceeding 10000, but not
exceeding $4,000; per cent on all
amounts exceeding $4,000, but not
exceeding $4,000; per cent on all
amounts exceeding $4,000, but not
exceeding 500, 900; per cent on all
amounts exceeding sloe, 900 but not
exceeding $4,000; 8 per cent on all
amounts exceeding $4,000. but not
exceeding 100000
Many Governments Have Tax.
Income taxation is now an estab-
lished part of the fiscal machinery OF
a ma ority 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 a series
of income imposts 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 this
month. Representative Cordell Hull,
Of Tennessee, was the original drafts
man of the measure.