Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-31
ISLAND

Rock Island gets a division Office
and Moline gets a subdivision Of
nee of the internal revenue depart
ment under the reorganization OF
the districts in the state of Illinois
which is effective tomorrow.
The Chicago district absorbs the
! Peoria district and the Springfield
| district absorbs the East Louis dis
trict, giving Illinois two instead OF
four districts. Six division Offices
Of the Chicago district are provid-
ed for, Rock Island being one OF
| them.
In addition to the division and
subdivision office, zone deputies
will be stationed in the following
/ places in the Rock Island division /:
Aledo, Dixon, Kewanee, Spring
Valley, Princeton and Sterling.
Relative to the reorganization of
the district, an official statement of
the department made public today,
says:
The internal revenue service is
to be taken to the people of The
state of Illinois, according to an
announcement made by Commits
sioner Daniel G. Roper today. Di-
vision and subdivision Offices, open
at all times, which will serve as
personal service stations to tax
payers, are soon to be established
in 81 of the leading cities of the
state.
Rock Island is to become the
headquarters of one of the divis-
ions into which the two collection
districts Of Illinois are to be di-
vided.
Consolidation Of the four Illi-
Eois internal revenue collection
districts into two districts effects
Capitalization of the office work
which is largely of an accounting
character and permits the extern
sion of the field service in the es-
adjustment of IA general divis-
ions. Headquarters will be estab-
lished as early as possible in each
of these divisions where an Office
will be maintained, open at all
times, with men in charge especi-
ally qualified to assist taxpayers
on incomes and all miscellaneous
tax matters.
The general plan now provides
for the establishment of headquar-
tiers for the six divisions into
which the First (Chicago) district
is to be divided in the following
cities: Chicago, Rock Island. Peo-
ria, Joliet, Aurora and Rockford.
Subdivision offices offering the
same facilities for serving taxpay-
ers will be established at Wauke-
gan, Evanston, Oak Park, Chicago
Heights, Kankakee, Elgin. Free
port, Moline and Galesburg.
THE Springfield district is to be
divided into eight divisions with
division headquarters in the fol-
lowing cities: Springfield, East st.
Louis, Bloomington, Decatur, Dan
vile, Quincy, Centralia and Cairo.
Subdivision offices offering the
same facilities for serving taxpay-
ers will be established at Cham
paign, Jacksonville, Alton and
Belleville.
"In addition, when this plan is
under full Roadway, zone deputies
will be stationed for the first week
Of every month in every city hav-
ing over 5000 population in the
state, as we'll as many other cities
md towns which now have no rep
Of the revenue service.
The zone deputy will spend the re-
of the month in surround
ng territory, usually one or two
counties.
THE Reorganization of the in
ernaI revenue service in Illinois
s part of a general program being
carried out by Commissioner Ro-
Der to unity and expand the rev.
anue service so that it may moro
serve, the growing
reeds of the great number of fe /
.ral taxpayers"