The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-01-29
Supervisor of Incomes DaE
ton Finds It Impossible to
Get Returns from People
Without Blanks.
lust SQDABDLE WITH PRINTER
Ten Thousand Blanks Still Wanted IN
Kenoaha, and Time for Filing of In
come Reports VIII Be Extended on
Account Of the Blank Shortage.

It may be another month before Re
nosha people get the call from the
state Of Wisconsin to make out the
return Of their income for 1919 OF
course these returns should now be
coming into the assessor OF incomes
but it IS admitted even by the state
tax commission that the people Of the
state can not file reports Of incomes
and put themselves in the line Of in
come tax payers IL the state is unwlll-
ing to furnish blank to file It on The
blanks for the return Of the incomes
should have been in the hands of the
tax PAYERS month ago but there seems
to be excellent reason to believe that
the ten thousand Kenoshans who get
these blanks will wait another month.
Not single blank has rs yet reached
the city and there is no indication that
there will be any blanks for some time
to come.
Here is the Secret Of It.
81 would be glad to have the blanks
sent to every income tax payer IN ke-
nosha today, declared Assessor Dali
ton this morning, but you can T send
OUT re blanks until you get them and
I haven I the slightest idea when we
aFs going to get them. The secret is
that someone has made an error up at
Madison. It is believed to be the men
who pointed the blanks. At any rate
the state didn t get as many blanks as
the bill called for. The statement is
that the count gu them was $4,000
greater than the blanks delivered and
the state officials have refused to ac-
eept delivery Of the big order Of blanks
until someone makes good this $4,000
blanks. The fight was still going on
between the printer and the tax com
mission when we got our last word
from Madison
Extend Time For Filing.
uOf course, continued Mr.. Dalton,
"we can not demand that the people
get the blanks back to us by the first
of March as provided by the state law
if we do not get the blanks to the peo-
pie by that time and feel certain that
am safe in saying that the people
will be given am extension Of time j
which to figure out their incomes and
make the returns to the assessor. In
Kenosha county we have ten thousand
of these blanks and we have at least
got to write the names of the people
on them and send them out by mail.
1t will take a considerable time to get
all these blanks into the mail after we
get them
So far as could be learned there was
no especial worry on the part of the
people who had not received the blanks
and there was no fear on the part of
the assessor Of incomes that mobs
would lombard the Office and demand
an immediate delivery.
Big Increase in Number of Payers,
There is expected to be another big
increase in the number of income tax
payers this year Already the corpora
tions have filed the report Of their EN-
ployees and this shows that lot Of
new names viii be on the income tax
list. The state income tax of next
year will be computed as the income
tax was this year with the exception
that the big tax for the payment Of
the soldier bonus will be eliminated.
The one-fourth Of the educational bo-
nus viii be assessed against the in
comes to be reported on this year