The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-10-17
erORGIA'S INCOME TAX
NEARLY 8 MILLIONS
urrMBER OF UNCLE SANS
wrpHEWS AND NIECES WHO
paid LAST YEAR 7,25e,e44.
% HAD INCOMES OF 81, 100000

ro.,l Incomes of Those Who Paid
Was "a Billion Dollars. Farmers
Lead Lawyers, and Many Women
paw on Their Incomes.
WASHINGTON, D. Cot the
72;oo44 persons who filed personal
.,on,e tax returns for 1920 as total
of65S382 paid on incomes of $4,000
.onral1v. or less, the report OF the in
+.rnaI revenue bureau on income taxes
revealed today.
.o,res Of S1,000,000 or more and l23
M incomes between 100000 and ST.
100000 a year.
The total income represented by the
more than 100000 personal returns
WAS S23735,629,1S 1873 and the tax was
SlT1053,686.
Corporations filing tax returns to-
tailed 345,595. They paid taxes to the
mount Of $1,625, 234,643.
Little Fellows Numerous.
The most numerous class of income
..v PAYERS was made up of persons
With taxable incomes OF $1,000 to ST.
400 wear. These little fellows" num-
bered 2,671,950.
The report showed that H,558 wives
made separate returns from their hus
bands: that 132,181 women paid taxes
As heads of families" while 744,574
men fled as heads of families"
Farmers and those in related lines
led the list of persons whose taxable
incomes were derived from businesses
conducted by themselves. There were
EI805 returns by agriculturists, while
professional men came next with 269,-
0-5
More than one-fourth Of the entire
personal income tax was paid by resi-
dents of New York state. There were
l0476}4 returns from that state, tor
total OF $3.50, 1907 ,280, or zoos per
cent Of the total tax. This meant that
one person in ten in New York paid
an income tax.
Georgia paid $7,697,693; Louisiana,
S9626.59l Kentucky, $7,292,O98; Vir-
gina. T,404201; Tennessee, $751; $685.
009
Georgia Income Tax Facts.
Georgia in 1921 reported a larger
number of individual income tax re-
turns and larger gross total on such
returns than any other state in the
southeast
This showing is made despite the
unusual TACT that six counties IN the
state re0orted less than two individual
TAX returns. They were Baker county
and Milton county, with two; Heard
county and Towns county with one;
Union county did not report single
income large enough to justify tax
return
On net personal and corporation in
comes for the calendar year 1920,
Georgians paid $21, 202,031 income
taxes or 81 of l per cent of the total
collected by the federal government
Tor 1920, standing twenty-third among
the states in the amount paid.
For the calendar year 1920 Georgia
reported S228.619,716 net personal in
come, S6l718,452 net corporation. m
come total of $290,338,l68 which
was % per cent OF the total net III,
come reported for the whole United
States.
OF Georgia's population OF 2,S95,S32
personal income tax returns were mace
by 1925 in 1920. They reported their
net personal income to be $228ol9,-
TO- on which they paid taxes OF ST.
6g7.693.
Only about one in every 40 OF Geor-
gas population filed an income tax
return for the calendar year 1920. The
average net personal income reported
was S3,ll7,90 The average tax PAID
was $l0498.
The amount of net personal income
reported by Georgia income tax pay
ers grew steadily between 1910 and
1920 In 1917 the amount OF net per
sonal income reported was $l3I,I/5,-
6l2; in 1918, $148,366,439; in 1919,
S219 471.959, and in 1920, $228,ol9,7lo.
The highest net personal income IN
which return was made from Georgia
was between $500,000 and $750,OOO.
Two others reported incomes between
S25000O and 100000, and one other
between 100000 and $250,OO0
Identity Hidden.
All four of them, however, made
their returns under the class group
PLAN thereby conceaing the net IN
come and the identity of the taXpay-
ers. But combined these four had net
income of $1,494,900, on which they
paid taxes of $S17,73S. .,
Two persons in Georgia reported
net personal incomes between Sl50,,
GOO and 100000; II between 100000
and $l50000; eight between SS9OOoV
and 100000; FIVE between $4,000 and and
100000, and seven between S/O,Ooo
and S80000
Persons with net income between
$1,000 and $4,000 composed the larg-
est group reporting in Georgia, there
beng about 81, 900 in this class. There
We're about $4,000 persons reporting
incomes in Georgia between Sl,OOo
and $1,000.