The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-01-22
|lARYLAND PAYS FEDERAL
- TAX ABOVE 80 STATES
Gives U. S. More On Personal
Income Than Do IA Others
Combined.

Information given out at the Fed
eral Treasury at Washington recently
shows that Maryland pays more into
the Treasury in personal income tax
es than any one of SO other States.
Further, she pays more than do IA
States combined.
Maryland also pays more in corpo-
ration taxes to the Federal Treasury
than do 81 States. Further, she pays
more than IL States combined.
This is revealed in statistics of in
come. from returns for the year 1922
in a report of the Bureau of Internal
Revenue. 1t gives some idea of the
result, so far as taxation is concern
ed, of the so-called Federal-aid pro-
jects on which the Government has
embarked in recent years.
This Federal aid for roads, for ma
ternity work, for forest preservation
and control and for other projects is
distributed among the States on var
ious bases, one condition being that
each State appropriate an amount
equal to that it receives from the
= Federal Government. But there is
not statistician in the Federal Gov
eminent who can figure out that Ma
ryland receives as much from any of
these Federal-aid funds as do IA
States whose combined taxes she ex-
ceeds.
The net result is, obviously, that
Maryland taxpayers are bearing part
of the cost of the Federal-aid projects
in at least a dozen other States.
The IA States that, combined, pay
less than Maryland in personal in
come taxes are Mississippi, Vermont,
Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona,
Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada, South
Dakota, South Carolina, Delaware
and Arkansas.
The II States that, combined, pay
less than Maryland in corporation
Income taxes are Arizona, Idaho, Mis-
Essippi, Montana, Nevada, New Mex
leo, New Hampshire, North Dakota,
Vermont and Wyoming.
Maryland for the year 1922 filed
110,S96 personal income tax returns,
1.64 per cent of the total for the
United States and its territories.
These returns showed a net income
of S386,83O,235, or 1.81 per cent of
the total. The amount of taxes paid
on them was SIS, 1868, 765, or 1.79 per
cent of the total.
The percentage of Maryland's pop
ulation filing returns was 7.45. The
average net income per return was
S3,4SS.23, compared with S3,143. As
for the United States as a whole. The
average amount of tax per Maryland
return was S138.54, compared with
S126.S5 for the country as a whole.
The average Marylander reported a
net income of S259.72 after exemp-
tons and deductions had been made;
this compares with S194.72 per capita
for the country. And the average
Marylander paid a personal income
tax of S10.32, compared with per
capita of S7.S6 for the United States
as whole.
Of the 1859 corporations in Mary
land, $500 reported net incomes of
$65, $50. These corporations paid
$7,288,677 in income taxes and $685.
693 war and eXcess-proft taxes. The
total tax paid by them is "a per cent
of tn etotal paid in the United States
as a whole.
The report shows that one Mary
lander reported a gross income be-
tween S1,0O0,000 and S1,500,0OO and
that two reported incomes between
100000 and 100000. No details of
the statistics of these classes were
given, however.
There were six Maryland returns
with incomes between 100000 and
100000, four beteween S250,OOO and
100000, six between 100000 and
$250,000, nine between S15O,OOO and
100000, 20 between 100000 and
$150,O00, 25 between 100000 and
100000 and % between $4,000 and
100000. There were 1888 Maryland
ers who reported incomes of $4,000
to $4,000.