Evening star., 1945-03-15
Thousands Pay
Income Taxes
On Final Day
2,800 Receive Help
At Revenue Office
Within ~ Hours

their income tax problems until
almost the last moment rushed to
complete their calculations today
and round up enough cash to meet
the deadline for filing at midnight
tonight.
The returns, together with pay
ments due, must be in the collector s
office or in mails by midnight.
The line started forming at 6 am.
today at the Office in room 1902 at
the Revenue Building, Twelfth street
and Constitution avenue NV. When
the doors opened at $3.50 am. there
were about 500 persons in line. The
line had disappeared by 9:45 am.
Up to II o'clock about 1890 had
passed through the Office. A staff
of experts will remain on duty until
midnight.
Fewer Get Aid This Year.
A. Parks Rasin, administrative as
sistant to the collector of internal
revenue for the Washington division,
estimated that about 10000 people
probably would get help at the local
Office today. This would be big
drop from the 1888 who called on
March Is last year. The crowd has
been running much less than last
year, he said. Yesterday there was
count of 7,948 compared to 13,491
on March IA, 1914.
Mr.. Rasin said his Office took care
of about $4,000 persons between
January l and March Is last year,
and expected the total for the same
period this year to run to only about
100000.
Bank officials said many taxpay-
ers are borrowing money to pay
their taxes, or cashing War Bonds.
Officials of the Revenue Bureau
estimated that about 100000 peo-
pie will file returns this year on their
income for the calendar year 1914.
OF these it is expected that about
10000, 900 can use the shortest form
of all, the little W. receipt from
their employers, showing the total
income, and tax withheld for 1914.
Record Collection Expected.
Tax experts estimated Govern
ment collections for 1914 for the
whole country would reach $4,000
100000, the highest on record, and
comparing with preWar revenues of
5000, ,000, 900 year or less.
On Capitol Hill, Representative
Carlson, Republican, of Kansas,
author of the Pay-as-You-Go Act,
which established the current with
holding system against wages and
salaries, said further adjustments
are needed to simplify returns for
persons earning more than $1,000.
He said he is studying the advisa-
billty of a graduated Withholding
levy designed to, take virtually the
entire tax of persons making up to
$4,000 year.
A check of figures compiled by the
congressional tax staff showed that
from 1863-as far back as their
figures go through fiscal 1941,
total tax payments amounted to
$97 1853, ,675 900.
The last payments today on 1914
incomes are expected to bring reve-
nue. for the three war years consider
ably above 100000, 100000, which
congressional experts said was more
than the aggregate of all prior taxes
collected since the Nation was con-
stituted.
IL Billion From Incomes.
OF the 1914 collections, around
$4,000, 100000 will be from individ-
llal incomes. The remainder comes
chiefly from corporation taxes and
excise levies on such items as liquor,
cigarettes and beauty aids.
Prior to enactment of the first indi-
vidual income tax in 1918, the Gov
ernment was financed chiefly by
levies on liquor and tobacco. Records
disclose that in 1907 the liquor tax
yielded 806 per cent of all Govern
ment revenues.
Blind persons were aided this year
by Braille transcriptions of income
tax blank 1040, and the instruction
sheets for it. Copies were available
at the. Library of Congress. They
were made by Volunteers Service for
the Blind at Philadelphia, and by
several other volunteers from other
parts of the country.
This was under supervision of
Miss Alice Rohrback, chief of the
Braille Transcribing Section of
Books for the Adult Blind at the
Library of Congress.