The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-12-01
INTERNAL REVENUE.
OFFICE DREAES ALL.
BUSINESS RECORDS.
Last Day to Pay Special Taxes
) 'ogerwheins Clerical Force
With Work
CROWDS THRoNG COUNTERS
TO SAVE HEAVY PENALTY
Collector Cottrill Says Thousands
Of Dollars Were Receipts Of
Transactions

'"This has been the heaviest day q
work in the history Of the internal
revenue Office, said Collector Cottrill
last night. as he surveyed the tnil,end
Of line OF several hundred persons
who had passed before the counters ali
day long.
'Fron balf.past seven o clock this
morning until late this evening the
line has stretched out into the CORR.
doris, and this is the smallest number
Of persons who have been In the Office
today he said, just before closing
the doors az eight o'clock.
y The collector was referring TO the
large number of persons who Needed
the warning notice in yesterday = tAd-
vertiser and came 10 on the last day
Of grace TO pay their special revenue
taxes and TO purchase stamps which
must go on the various kinds Of legal
Documents, perfumes, cosmetics, to-
bheco, chewing gum and other articles
today. w
Thanks The Advertiser
/" ! want to thank The Advertiser for
giving this matter 50 much publicity, =
Mr: Cottrill said, 1T IS q service
which has helped this department. great.
". and ] think, the public rs wen.
Many Of the persons who. caDsa in TO.
day to pay their taxes knew nothing
about the expiration OF the time limit
today until their attention was called
to the newspaper article,
The collector would not give any
estimate Of the amount Of money taken
in over the counter In bis Office yester.
day. He explained that in the first
place his office force had been SO busy
taking in the cash there was no time
to total it, and in tie second place coll
leetors are not permitted TO divulge the
amount OF the day s business. He did
say, however, that il amounted TO thou.
sands Of dollars, but would not say how
many.
Individual Transactions Break Records
Much larger sums of money are taken
in at the collectors Office on June 80,
when the big business concerns and cor
,porations pay their taxes, but yester-
day the greatest number of fndiQidnal
transactions Of any one day in the his.
tory Of the Office took place. In addi.
ton to the cash taken in for the spe-
ciql taxes on the various lines Of bust
ness, large number of revenue stamps
were sold TO business houses and deal.
ers.
Every imaginable sort Of question
was propounded to the clerks at the
reyenue Office yesterday The Office
force had been pretty well drilled in
the line Of work they were expected
to handle and the answers were given
promptly which greatly expedited the
transaction of business, but even at
that persons were obliged to stand in
line long time during the afternoon
IN order TO get their turn AZ tho eoun.
ters. 8
hundreds Of Small Merchants
There were hundreds Of japanese and
Chinese small merchants and dealers,
some of whom purchased three or four
kinds Of special licenses, being store
keepers, proprietors of amusement
places and manufacturers.
/ Blank forms which had been mailed
ont on Friday Of last week enabled a
great many Of the business concerns
and Individuals coming under the scope
OF the new law TO utilize the mail TO
pay their taxes, sending in the forms
properly filed out and accompanied by
checks for the amounts due. Late in
the evening there were just two kinds
Of noise predominating in the collect.
or's Office the jingle Of coin as It was
swept into the cash drawer and the
rattle Of the adding machine in the
adjoining room.
At eight clock Mr.. cottriiI estii
mated that It would take until mid.
night to finish the days work, and
none Of the Office force had been out
for meals all day. When meal time
came they nibbled at sandwiches which
We're brought in.