The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1919-07-31
NEW REVENUE DISTRICT.
Idaho Now One of Ten New Districts
Recently Formed.

Giving to each State, with the ex-
ception of Nevada, a separate collec-
ton district and providing for the es-
adjustment of permanent personal SER
vice headquarters in every important
city in the United States, plans for the
re-arrangements OF the sixty-four in
ternal revenue collection districts were
announced last week by the Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue, Daniel G
ROPER. An executive order signed by
the President abolishes ten collection
districts in states which do not now
have separate collection district The
Fifth North Carolina District is com.
bined with the Fourth district, with
headquarters at Raleigh, to permit of
the creation of a separate collection
district for the state of Mississippi
which now forms part of the Ala
hama district
The five districts in Kentucky are
consolidated into one to permit the
establishment of separate collection dis
tricts in the states Of Arizona, Utah,
Idaho and Wyoming
The ninth G,ancaster) Pennsylvania
district is consolidated with the First
philadelphia district, to permit the
creation of a separate collection dis
trict for the state of Delaware.
The Seventh (Terre Haute) Indiana
district is consolidated with the Sixth
(Indianapolis) district with headquar-
ters at Indianapolis, to permit of the
establishment of separate collection
district for the state Of Maine.
The Fifth (Peoria) district of Illi-
noiS is consolidated with the First
(Chicago) district with headquarters
ut Chicago, to permit of a separate
collection district for the state of Yer
mont.
The Thirteenth EAST St LOUISE
district of Illinois is consolidated with
the Eight (Springield) district with
headquarters at Springfield, to permit
of a separate district for the state
of Rhode Island.
The First (Milwaukee) Wisconsin
(Madison) district with headquarters
at Milwaukee to permit the establish
ment of separate collection district
for the state of North Dakota.
Nevada remains part Of the First
California district, and the District
of Columbia a part of the Maryland
district.
The number of collection districts
is limited by law to sixtyfour
Necessitated by the vast increase in
the work of the Bureau,-the number
of returns having increased in ten
years from 100000 to more than Is,
600 000-the purpose Of the change is
to serve the taxpayers more efficiently
by opelHng division and subdivision
headquarters at important cenhrs of
population and using the collectors
offices as clearing and accounting cen
tiers for the Bureau offices at Wash
ington.
tricts becomes effective August 1.
Creation of the new districts dates
from the appointment and confirmation
of tile collector of internal revenue in
each. The plan does not carry with
it the appointment of large number
of new employees but provides for
the more effective utilization of the
present field force.
THE enforcement Of national prohi-
bition will naturally permit of the util-
iZation i'm that line of work of the
services of qualified men now engaged
in supervising and investigating the
collection of liquor taxes.
The highly centralized Office organ
ization of the internal revenue field
service no longer meets the needs of
the taxpayers of the country said
Commissioner Roper. The field force
must be transformed, rebuilt with d
vision of giving far greater degree
of personal service TO the public This
calls for the opening of many new Iii
vision and subdivision headquarters
each fully equipped to render efficient
service to taxpayers. 1t means thu
assignment to these offices of the best
trained men in the service.
The theory, practical in the former
days of few hundred thousand tax
payers that the main central offic,
could most efficiently serve the public