The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-10
INCOME TAXES OF
OUR M|L[|ONA|RES
There Are 1886 Men Who
Get into Seven-Figure
Class This Year
TEN POSSESSORS OF
OVER $685. 100000
Under the New Law Nothing in the
Way of Incomes Over 1000 Is Elk
empt = Treasury Expects to Collect
s666, 100000.

NEW YORK, Dec. lo.-America 5
rapidly increasing number of million
aires is widely scattered. There were
% $50 OF them last year, according to
estimates worked out of the income tax
returns for 1916, as against li,77l in
1915. II is altogether likely that the
returns FOR 1917, not yet available, will
show another big increase lii the group.
1t has not been made plain, in con
nection with income tax statistics COM
piled III Washington, whether citizens
classified as millionaircs were so CLASH
fed solely on the basis Of their report
ed gross incomes. If, for example, the
government puts n man down as a
millionaire because he has total in
come Of 100000 or more, without ana
living his return to determine how
much Of the $4,000 is from investments
and how much from salary, the tabula-
ton Of millionaires is far from accu-
rate. Many highsalaried man en-
lows a millionaire 5 income, but does
not possess a millionaire's capital.
Each Of the forty.six out Of the
| forty-cight states, according TO the gov
eminent estimates, can boast at least
one millionaire, and the same is true
| OF Alaska, the Philippines, Hawaii,
| and. OF course, the District Of Columbia
/ The two states which may have the
| distinction OF having no million
| aires among their citizens are Alabama
and Mississippi, but they are in doubt.
In the annual official reports are
| tables showing tax returns from in
comes that are grouped as TO size
| 500, 900 TO 10000, 100000 to 100000,
| $50, 900 to $4,000, and so on, up 10
! 80 900 900 and over for al the states.
! The ~uper-tax, Of course, increases as
YOU 90 from ono group to the next.
i 1aere is \ further classification OF in
comes above 8, 900 200, from which
similar conclusions may be drawn as
10 the number OF multimilhonaires. but
that il such a small group that il is
not given hy states.
As to ordinary millionaires. Alabama
and Mississippi may have them, because
they both are listed in the column
showing the income group between 800
O00 and 10000, but both drop out al
that point. Alaska goes them tvs
groups better. and STAYS in up TO tn,
lass Of incomes ranging from $4,000
70 100000, which means that somebody
up there in the cold has at least 50 ,000,
600 The Philippine Islands also stay
in the lists up to the two million anl
better group, and Hawaii has some
body with an annual income Of between
$500, 900 and 100000. 50 has tn,
state OF Idaho. Beyond that poin
twenty two Of the states and the ter
ritories are missing. Seven moro droI
out when il comes 10 incomes Of from
n million to n million and half, indi
eating fortunes from so 100000 TO So
100000, leaving only twenty-five
etatos in that group. Nine more state
drop out as the procession moves on {
the incomes ranging from a millio
and a half to two million. These min
states, which the figures indicate ar
without fortunes exceeding $37 800 ,00t
are California. Colorado, Georgia, II
diana Minnesota. Missouri, North Care
9 lima, Vermont and Washington.
Thirteen states are in the high grou
incomes exceeding $4,000, 600 and il
dicating, on the 4 per cent basis, 20
tunes of $5000O,00O and over. Florid
II stays in that top class Just by the ski
o Of her teeth. One person in that stat
Y has just enough over $2,000,00o0 as h
D income to yield the government So
,e tax at the supcr-tax rate for that grou
c of l3 per cent.
I The thirteen states in the over-tw
y million -dollarincome class are: Co
nocticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinoi
= Maryland Massachusetts,, New Jersc
New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pcnpsy
vania, Rhode Island and Texas.
OF course, the law Of secrecy pr
g' vents the public from learning Official
M who are the ten Americans possessiI