Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-17
EBERS NO LONGER FOCRATS AMONG E WAGE BANNERS
Wages and Overtime lave Now Elevated
 Others

K. :, .or,e taxes are no longer the
 ,crats of Iabor," according to
 m H. Edwards, United States {, 1. al. Revenue Collector for the \ and Third districts of New
 in whose districts this year
 than s1, 300, 100000 will be gath
 up for Uncle Sam.
 \ r wages and profitable over .avs Mr. Edwards, have raised
 . income tax paying list such
 prs as longshoremen, garment
 rs. paper hangers, railroad
 men. chauffeurs, sailors, truck
 "a m and, piano movers. "And
 forget the chorus girls, the
 stars and the hotel walters"
 red the collector, adding that
 of the latter aare making more
 s50O0 a year in, tips alone.
 reet car conductors and motor
 in Brooklyn, for instance, he
 have made as much as $60 a
 and if their yearly income ex
 s1,OOO for a single man or S2,-
 for the head of family, thes
 he required to contribute theil
 toward the cost of running the
 rnment. MT. Edwards cited a
 instances without, of course
 tioning. any names of boot
 ks. milk wagon drivers and bell
 who in 1919 earned in exces
 heir exemption and who will be hired to file returns.
 hyment of the income tax began
 January and will continue until
 might of March IS at which time
 returns must be in to escape the sibility of maximum of $1,00t for delinquincy. While. Col
 tor Edwards was opening his mai
 other day out fell a check fo' b8S ,51b.39, representing the pay Int of corporation tax with pen N and interest. The next lette, opened was from Montclair, N. J. |ich is also in his district. It had en registered to pay an income tas s137.
 "A recent caller at the collector lice was woman whose net income Is 65 cents. Her tax amounted to far cents. She wanted to know ii |e would be permitted to make the |yments quarterly" When ,>told |e could she smiled and said shs |essed she would pay it all at lnded over four pennies and tool ,r receipt. Another patriotic cit en--foreign born-filed a carefu! turn showing that he had no in me which was subject to taxation the bottom of his return was the flowing notation: "No tax due bui ,uld like to pay some tax, and en ose for $100. a
 Collector Edwards said that, un r the law, he was not permitted tt cept the check but that he for arded it to Commissioner Roper ir ashington to dispose of as he saw :. This year the income tax rate less than last, MT. Edwards said e normal rate being percent or e first $4,000 of. net income abovs e exemption and 8 percent oh the net income, instead of { d 12 percent as in 1918.
 "Offhand," said the collector, "onf 'uld hardly think that a long brennan came within the require ,nts of the income tax law. Ger inly he did not a few years az len many of them found it hard tt ike living. In the past year o O, however, many longshoremel we been making from $3,0O0 tc 900 year. 'The income tax also hits soma 'mbers of the theatrical profession. city hard. Some of these actors motion picture stars, per ps make as high as S200 and $50 week for six months in the year ey live we'll and by the time thei come tax payment is due may b t of an engagement. They are nfronted with a good sized ta, thout any immediate means. Il then up to them to get it.
 Last year my investigators founf my diamond merchants have bee' ing business in this country fou' five years without paying taxe' got after them and increased ou' turns by more than $1,O00,O0o me of the actresses who were de quent last year said they did no because they could not figur' just how much they were ex pt because of their gowns, taxi os and other luxuries. A 50 per It penalty was imposed because o 9lr failure to pay the taxes wher Income taxes," said the collector lould be figured as a liability jus insurance, interest on -a~mort se or your winters coal bill. TheI en the time comes for payment Il not be hardship. Nearly 20, persons were fined last year fo,., lure to file returns. A certain ckbroker made $200,000. He file1 return showing tax of $40,00c. defaulted in his payment, how 1T, and in personal interview n me, said he didn't have thf ney. A percent penalty was i'm 'ed and he hustled around and go money. His failure to provid the tax cost him just $2,000." The Second and Third New Yor' trcts, MT. Edwards said. raiss re than one-quarter of the totf 0unt collected throuphort the CT