Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27
S19D,O)O,O]O TOTAL
IN TAX REFUNDS
Thousands of Individuals
Benefit in Payments Rec
tifying Errors of 1929.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
John D. Rockefeller, Mary Pickford
and thousands of individuals and firms
f1guratively rubbed elbows in a Treasury
Department report to Congress, made
yesterday and given out for publication
today. which listed funds allowed by
the Government on taxes collected
through error in the fiscal year 1929.
The total was $1s0,Oo0,oOO.
The report covered refunds ranging
from items of $500 to individuals. COM
panies and estates in every section Of
the Union, to single refund of S25.-
647.259 to the Carnegie Steel Co, the
largest single beneficiary recorded in
the report
Some of the refunds already had been
published, having come under a recent
law requiring publication of the names
of beneficiarieS and the amounts accru-
ing to them as soon as the refunds are
made. But by far the majority of the
thousands of names and amounts listed
fell under the old law requiring them
to be Jumped into an annual report
which this year covered the 48 States
and Hawaii.
Outstanding Western State.
Outstanding among Western States
whose citizens received large returns on
enormously collected taxes was Califor-
mia, home of the moving picture and
subsidiaries, which were overtaxed to
the extent of many millions. Mary
Pickford alone, of the Los Angeles NOV
ing picture colony, was refunded $10,163.
Illinois, Pennsylvania and New York
furnished the Government with its
heaviest tax refund burden in the
Middle West and East Florida led all
Southern States in overassessmentS for
1929.
Railroads and steel mills alone ac-
counted for mere than $26,700,000 tax
refunds In Pennsylvania, while Chicago
firms and industries accounted for
scores of refund items to Illinois run
ming into more than 100000 each.
Insurance companies in Massachu
sets and Connecticut brought millions
of refund money into the Eastern
alone amounted to more than the COM
bined refunds of whole blocks of West
ern and Southern States.
Rockefeller a Beneficiary.
Mr.. Rockefeller, one Of the worlds
wealthiest men. received $157,227; the
Carnegie company SIS. BAT ,259, the larg-
est single refund listed; the William
Waldorf Aston Trust, $6,456,829, and
Daniel Guggenheim of New York,
1881. Hundreds of refunds, all of
$500 or more, were listed including
benef1ciaries in every State Of the Union
and Hawaii.
Refunds Exceeded 100000.
Among those receiving refunds of
more than 81 ,000,000 taxes were: The
Marine Securities Co. of Chicago, ST.
o54,295; the Hancock Mutual Life In
surance Co. of Boston, SLIT, $40; w. r.
Grace & Co, New York, $3.50 ,449; P.
Iorillard Co, New York, 81 ,627 SOL:
William P. Clyde estate, Brooklyn, ST.
4o4,9 $50; the Central Leather Co., New
York, S1,1o4,849: Mrs. Alice G. Kales
of Detroit, $3,134, 780; the Standard Oil
Co. of Louisville, KY, $2,614,552; the
Prudential Insurance Co. of America,
Newark, N. j., $3,788129; the Mutual
Benefit Life Insurance Co. of Newark,
S1,075, 1851, and the Botany Worsted
Mills of PaSsaic, N. j., $1,007,770.
Three items of more than $1,000 900
were refunded to the alien property Gus
todian at Washington for taxes collect
ed in Maryland on estates confiScated
during the World War. The eventual
beneficiaries of these refunds were: E.
Merck. Garnstadt Germany, 81, 3o3. 227,
and 81 ,087, 422 each for Carl Duisburg,
Christian Hess and Randolph Mann. all
of whom now live in Leverkufen, Ger
many.