New Britain herald., 1925-08-18
BUSINESS WOMEN'S
 INCOMES GROWING
Tax Collections From Wholesale
 BootleSSerS Also Increase
RETURNS PUBLIC IN WEEK
Collector Bowers of Second District Predicts That Collections May Sur. pass Those of Year Ago, Despite Reduction of Rates,

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 pass Those of Year Ago, Despite
 Reduction of Rates.
 By The Associated Press.
 New York, Aug. 1S,-A material increase in the income of business women and the appearance of sub stantial collections from Illicit traf- flc, such as the wholesale bootlegger will feature the income tax returns to be made public two weeks from today.
 While the actual statistics are closely guarded against the hour when the curtain of secrecy will be raised by order of the treasury de- dartment, enough advance informa tion on the results in the second district has become known to state with certainty that collections will approximate, if not surpass, those or the last tax year, despite the low, cred normal and surtax rates.
 The situation here, according tc internal revenue officials, may be taken as indicative of that which will be shown in majority of the l other districts.
 General Increase
 Gross collections In the second district are expected by Collector Frank k. Bowers to be slightly above those reported in 1924, duo primarily to improved collecting op- eratiors. The number of returns will be slightly larger, he said, and the average tax per return should show an increase.
 A preliminary survey of returns to the local collector indicated that the position of women in industry improved in the last calendar year Roth the number making returns and the average amount of incomC were increased. Attaches of thf collectors office noted by few comparisons that the earning ca pacity of the fair sex had mounted sufficiently 10 considerably offset the lowered tax rate. Executive posi-, lions held by women are becoming more and more prominent.
 Profit Sharing systems
 Protit-sharing 8ystem also in creased in vogue during tho last ta! year and in each casef those partici pating paid their tribute to the gov. ernmont The period of industria prosperity which obtained in some sections last summer and autumn 1 bonuses distributed by corporations to be re-rcfectcd again in the re, turns of the recipients.
 SAn outstanding feature of tho an nual tax report, however, will be signs that the collector has found means of imposing imposts on the hootlogGinE fraternity and others oi that ilk. By searching bank rec | bIOS, I'N Ill't ll0 VI bllll ''0ll''l lN l'l formation from intimate friends and hy observation that some individuals were living beyond their indicated legal means of livelihood" Mir Powers and his staff have influenced a number of supplementary returns
 There will hc few changes among the names in the higher brackets, the collector said, al- though the net tax paid will he greatly reduced by the changes ir rate. The individuals and estates who made up the top hundred names in the 1924 returns are eX- pccted to hold their positions this year.
 Requests for Information as tc taxes paid have continued through out the year, receiving a natural im- pctus when the new returns were filled last March, Applicants ran the gamut of the social scale from the shawl-covercd immigrant wife of the east side to the he-jewellcd chatelaine of Par avenue duplex
 Women Inconsistent
 "Especially insistent are the women," Collector Bowers said, "eNi- dcntly they are suspicious of the re- ports made at home of their hus' bands earnings. We are obliged tc turn many away daily with the statement that these reports are sacred until September l."
 Collections in the sailing divis- ion" of the local office have been heavy this year. The division is maintained 10 make certain that i'm migrants returning to their home lands after acquiring a competency here, shall pay just tribute to Uncle Sam. There has been surprising little difficulty in these collections MT. Bowers said, although many taxpayers dealt with are illiterate.
 "The general cooperation of the public has helped greatly" said the collector. Time was when the in. dividual opposed us at every turn now Mr. Citizen seems to have re- signed himself to payment of his debt to the government. The result has been 10 erase many difficulties with individual returns, Most of the litigation involves the corporation tax"