Evening star., 1943-06-14
5000 Will Be Added
To Help Administer
Tax
Bills for Second-Quorter
InstoIIments on Incomes
FinoIIy Mailed
BY HAROLD ROGERS.

The Internal Revenue Bureau
plans to add from 10000 to $4,000
new employees, mostly in field Of
flces, to help administer the new
pay-as-you-go revenue law, it
was announced today by the
Offlce OF War Information.
Meanwhile. taxpayers here and
throughout the country were ar
ranging to meet the second INSTALL
ment Of income taxes due before
tomorrow midnight.
In announcing such large expan-
sion in the force Of employees OF the
Revenue Bureau, the Owl said
ma ajority of the new employees will
be women. Since most Of them will
be assigned to the field, where
administration Of the new law large
ly will be carried out, 1t was antic-
ipated there would be very small
increase in the Washington local
office. No substantial expansion in
the headquarters of the bureau here
is anticipated.
MOStiy III Lower GraQeS.
The new employees will come into
the bureau through civil service ex-
aminations. They will be mostly
clerical employees In the lower grades.
M. Hampton Magruder of Upper
Marlboro and Baltimore, who will
resign tomorrow as collector of
internal revenue for Maryland and
the District of Columbia, was in
Washington today planning to relin-
qulSh his duties to A. Parks Rasin
VINO becomes acting collector until a
new presidential appointee can take
office.
Income tax bills for the second
quarterly installment will reach tax
payers through the mail TODAY or
tomorrow, Mr.. Rasin said today. A
big staff OF employees worked all day
yesterday turning out the last group
OF bills, which were delayed because
of late delivery of envelopes.
The bills are made out for the
entire remaining three-quarters of
the tax, but only part of this is due
| now. Persons should pay only the
second lnStallment
Many Line Up at Windows.
The office was busy place early
| today as taxpayers lined up to paw
The second installment before going
to work. Fifty were waiting at the
door OF room 1902 Of the Revenue
Building, Twelfth street and Con-
Stltutlon avenue NV, when the
doors opened. Six teller windows
were in use, and by o'clock there
were IS or 20 persons standing in
line before each of them Bv noon
line of more than $50 persons had
formed down the corridor of the
building
The Office will be open from 8:l5
m. to pm. both today and tomor-
row. to accommodate the public, Mr..
Rasin announced. Checks or money
orders may be mailed also, to the
Collector Of Internal Revenue, Bal
timore.
This second quarter tax will 90
TO the Government as part of this
years payment toward getting the
pupnc on a current pay-aS-yOu-RO
basis. The Government will credit
all payments made this year toward
the amount due under the new law.
These payments will include the first
quarters taxes paid in March; the
second quarter paid this month: the
five per cent Victory Tax withheld
from wages and salaries from Jan
uary l to June 30. and the new 20
per cent withholding tax which will
be taken out of pay checks and en-
velopes beginning early next month.
Credit on March Return.
All OF this will be established as
credit to the taxpayer who must
file return next March to report in
detail his earnings in both the CAL
endar year 1912 and l943. The new
tax law provides for IS per cent
forgiveness OF the tax in one of these
two years, whichever is the least.
The remaining unforeiven tax
must be paid one-half on March,
1914. and the other half in March.
1945.