The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-06
Longshoremen, Street Car
Conductors and Walters
Have Large Incomes
ONE WOMAN HAS
SIS CENTS NET INCOME
Pays Tax of Four Cents In Lump
sum-A Check for $2,883, $3.50 Sent
BY One Corporation to New York
Collector

Sum-A Check for S2,883, 515.39 Sent
BY One Corporation to New York
Collector.
NEW YORK, Feb. plumbers who
pay income taxes are no longer the "aris
tocrats of labor" according to William II.
Edwards, United States internal collector
for the second and third districts of New
York. in whose district this year more
than 81 800 900 will be gathered up
for Uncle Sam.
High wages and profitable overtime,
says Mr. Edwards, have raised to the in
come tax paying list such workers as
! longshoremen, garment makers, paper
hangers, railroad brakemen, chauifeurs,
sailors, truck drivers and piano movers.
And don't forget the chorus girls, the
movie stars, and the MOTEL walters" de-
clared the collector, adding that some of
the latter are making more than 5000
a year in tips alone.
Street car conductors and motormen in
Brooklyn. for instance. he said, have
made as much as S60 week and, if their
yearly income exceeds 81 900 for single
man or s. 600 for the head of a family,
they will be required to contribute their
share toward the cost of running the gov
eminent. Mr. Edwards cited few in
stances without, of course, mentioning
any names. of bootblacks, milkwagon
drivers and belboys who in 1919 earned
in excess of their exemption and who
will be required to file returns.
Payment of the income tax began on
January and will continue until mid
night Of March l. at which time all re-
turns must be in to escape the posi-
hilitv of maximum of 81 900 fine for de
linquency. While Collector Edwards was
opening his mail the other day out fell q
check for 81, SS3 ,5l5.30, representing The
payment of corporation tax and penal
tv and interest The next letter he opened
was from Montclair, \. j., which is alsc
in his district. 1t had been registered tc
pay an income tax of Sl,37.
A recent caller at the collectors office
was woman whose net income was s.
cents. Her tax amounted to four cents
She wanted to know if she would be per
United to make the payments quarterly.
When told she could she smiled ant
said she guessed she would pay it all a
once handed over four shining pennie
and took her receipt
Another patriotic citizen-foreign borl
filed careful return showing that h
had no income which was subject to taxa
ton At the bottom of his return wa
the following: NO tax due, but woul
like to pay some tax and enclose chez
for 800"
Collector Edwards said that under tn
Il law, he was not permitted to accept tn
II check, but that he forwarded it to Con-
II missioner Roper in Washington to di,
Il pose of it as he saw fit. This year tn
II income tax rate is less than last, Mr.. EC
n wards said the normal rate being PEI
Il cent on the first $4,000 of net incon
II above the exemption and s per cent Q
y the remaining net income instead of
: and II per cent as in 1918.
"Onhand,' said the collector, ''or
would hardly think that longshorema
~ came within the requirements of the i
a. come tax law. Certainly he did not fe
years ago when many of them found