Evening star., 1942-03-17
D. {. Record Broken.
As 1905 Pay
Income Taxes
Returns on Lost Day
Flood Collection Offices
Throughout Nation

Collectors of internal revenue
throughout the country today
were busy compiling totals on
the ecord-breaking income tax
payments which poured into
Uncle SANS pockets up to the
-deadline last midnight.
So great was the response of
Americans to the first wartime tax
returns, that officials estimated it
would take many hours to empty
the mailbags and go through the
great flood of last-minute returns
for a grand total '>-'' ast:<
Preliminary estimates were that
more than 22,000, 900 individuals and
many thousands of corporations had
filed drtheir-Eaturns and paid at hasb
one-fourth Of their tax before the
deadline. ..., :
, At the office of the local depla
collector here one lone straggler
showed up early this morning, to be
the first latecomer to make his re-
turn. and pay the penalty for late
filing. He had 5 per- cent added to
his tax bill ,
Woman Last to File.
Last person to file here last night
at the local Office, headed by Deputy
Collector A. Parks Rasin, was Mrs.
Patricia Fones, employe of the War
Production Board, who rushed from
her home at .5610 Colorado. avenue
NV. Just in time. The tax pay
ment on the joint return of herself
and her husband. Donald Fones,
also with the Government, was
turned over to Mr.. Rasin, who pre-
sided at the cashiers cage as the
doors closed.
All records were broken. here
when a total of 13,205 persons paid
their tax, total of which will not be
known for some time. OF these,
9,149-. called to have their returns
notarized and to pay the tax. while
the rest came to get assistance
from experts in making out their
returns.
The flood of callers ran up to
about 1000 an hour during the most
of the day, fell off in the late after
noon, then took a fresh squirt after
the dinner hour
Patriotic intent of many persons
was shown, according to Mr. Rasin,
by the fact that it was discovered
many persons waiting in line not
only did not have to pay any taxes,
but did not even have to file re-
turn
Many Mailed Returns.
In addition to those who called
at the local office of the deputy col
lector yesterday. thousands of per-
sons mailed their returns from here
to the collector of internal revenue
at Baltimore, Md, headquarters for
the collection district of Maryland
and the District.
Nearby Virginia also participated
in the big income tax day, accord
ing to Associated Press reports from
Richmond, where all records were
broken, estimates indicated.
Early yesterday afternoon guards
carried $9,740,370 to the bank for de-
posit With all but $825.732 of that
amount representing income pay
ments, it was the largest single
deposit ever made by the Office for
such taxes, officials said
This amount represented, how
ever, only the money which had
come in through the mail Sunday,
and which had been received - to
noon yesterday. The Office had col
lected from March l, through noon
a total of $21 1922 ,587, as compared
with $6,034,9 ,985 during the same Pc
riod last year.
Million Check Received.
Collector N. B Early, jr., hazarded
guess" that payments this year
probably would reach 100000, 600,
or more than double last years total
of s48 100000 to $40, 1000 900.
At Chicago, according to. the
Associated Press, Carter H. Harrison
announced the receipt of one check
for SIS 900 900 as a quarterly INSTALL
ment. 1t was the highest tax ever
paid at Chicago and was one OF 10.
quarterly checks topping $1,o00,000i
each.
At the Treasury Department
official reports on the first IS days
of the month showed income and
excess profits tax collections totaling
SAL ,394, ,7o2, or approximately two
and one-half times as much as the
SITS .809 ,319 collected in the cor
responding period last year. This
year, the rates are higher and the
exemptions are lower.
Treasury officials were attempting
to compile some kind of a. pre-
liminary estimate later today of the
possible total taxes received.