The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-12-08
MARYLANDERs WITH BIG IN
COMES.
One Listed In Income Tax Returns
AT Over a Million Year.

| AT Over a Million a Year.
| Multi-millionaires with an income
OF $1,000,000 year or more doubled
in the first year of the European war,
according to the annual report or w.
H. Osborn, commissioner of internal
revenue just made public.
| In 1914 there were "A Americans
who paid tax on incomes of ST.
900, 200 or more; in 1915 there were
60; and the report issued shows that
120 Americans paid tax on incomes
of this size in 1916.
In 1916 single men to the number
of 47,5S3 paid income tax, while
ingle women to the number of
22,916 also were rich enough to
bring them within the taxable limits.
The total number of income tax re-
turns, including single and married
persons, is reported as 374,652.
The most numerous class of per-
sons with taxable incomes are those
earning from $4,000 to $4,000 a
year; the next most numerous class
those earning from $4,000 to $4,000
year, and the third those earning
from $4,000 to $4,000 a year.
Returns From Maryland.
In Maryland 5,215 persons paid
The personal income tax to the fed
,ral government. The married per-
ions paying the personal income tax
o the federal government were most
numerous. Those paying the tax in
Maryland as married persons num-
,ered 3,5O1. Married women rem
lering separate returns in Maryland
numbered ga. Single persons in
Maryland paying the tax were 1,125
men and $50 women.
The statistical record of personal
ncome tax payments shows that "a
If the 120 persons in the entire coun-
ry who paid the tax on net incomes
If $1,O00,000 or over annually live
New York State. There was one
n Maryland. The income statistical
,ecord for Maryland, based on net
Incomes as shown by the returns
made public, are as follows:
Net incomes of $4,000 to $4,000,
l,4S7; $4,000 to $4,000, 1887;
$1,000 to $4,000, 1876; $4,000
20 $4,000, 633; $4,000 to $780,
300, S46; $4,000 to $4,000, -154;
$4,000 to $4,000, 1T; 100000 to
$4,000, 11S; $4,000 to $4,000.
so; $4,000 to $4,000, 81; $4,000
o 100000, "a; 100000 to $780,
700, 1T; $150,000 to 100000, z;
100000 to $25O,OO0, 3; $250,00O
% 100000, 2; 100000 to $4O0,-
300, 8; 100000 to $500,000, 1;
100000 to $1,O0O,0O0, 2, and ST.
100000 and over, /.
War Profits.
The total individual income tax
for the year ended June 80, 1916,
amounted to $67,943,594, an in
crease of $26,897,432 over 1915.
rhe European War is continuing to
lmass fortunes for individuals SO
rapidly that the indications are the
,eturns for 1917 will show at least
240 persons with incomes of ST.
10000 a year or more.
The report shows that corporation
income tax collected for the year
ending June 80, 1916, amounted to
S56,972,720, an increase Of $17,-
82S,189, compared with the previous
year. The war tax returned to the
government for the year ended June
30, 1916, the sum of $S4,278,302.
This was the first full year of oper-
alton of the tax.
The discovery of frauds to the ex-
tent of $5O,0OO,O00 marked the work
of the Internal Revenue Bureau DUR
ing the year, the report says. The
Bureau has gathered evidence in
enough cases to have already as
sessed $22,5O9,576 of this unpaid tax
against the offenders. The report
states that IL whiskey fraud con.
spirators and "a oleomarsarine fraud
3onspirators either are III prison or
nave paid heavy fines. Two hundred
and thirty-six tobacco factories have
oeen seized on account of frauds.