The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-21
By DresC RedysOar'

who set s machinery in motion for this taxaevasi6n campaign estimated that minimum of one billion 6s coected when Treasury forces could be expanded. and new workers could be trained and get on the Job.
 More recently we have strengthened the drive by tntensifying cooperation with other government departments and agencies interesed in stamping out black markets, rackets and tax evasion. An inter- departmental commtttee, with representatives from the Treasury Department, the Department cf Justice the Office of Price Administration and the Depart ment of Agricuitfe has gone to work to coordinate information and activities We intend to be ip apo sition to hit hard.
 Take, for example, the black market operator He uses currency in an effort to avoid making a record of his violations of the Price Control Act and because he thinks his profits cannot De traced he does not report them on hss ncome-tax return or understates them. The Treasury and the lORA have an equal interest in proceeding against this gentry, and from now on we will proceed more ef- fecttyely than ever before. ess s7t
 Only novice boxer telegraphs his blows We are not going to tell the black aud other tax eyaders, in advance. what we are going to do or how or when or where we are going to do it. But moments reflecton should convince any one who has engaged in tax evasion that there Is no future in it. What can man do with illegal profits? ing one of many traces that can be discovered and followed up whenever the Treasury and other agen- cies have enough men to do the job. 4syls as
 We in the Treasury are getting the men and training them We will have invaluable help from other departments of government in meeting our problems and we in turn, will help them in meeting theirs And we are constantly expanding the sources from which We will obtain information that will trap the tax evader He may think he escape by shov- ing his concealed profits in safe-depost box or by burying them in the ground. But whenever such currency reappears, it begins to leave tetale trail
 No honest American need fear this drive against tax evaders. No one is going to jail for an honest mistake in filling out his tax return Treasury policy permits the wilful evader to escape prosecution if he repents in time. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue does not recommend criminal prosecution in the case of any taxpayer who makes voluntary disclosure of omission other miSstatement In htS tax return of failure to make tax return None tary penalties may be imposed for delinquency, for negligence and for fraud, but the man who makes a disclosure before investigation is under way protects himself and his family from the stigma Of felony conviction.
 A great many people are taking advantage of this opportunity to get right with their government During the past two months an average of 1000 persons in the United States have voluntarily filed amended returns do not intimate that all of these course of events many Americans file such delin- quent and amended returns as they discover their lapses But venture to predict that the $3O00- 900 added revenue that the Treasury now receives each week, a result of these delinquent and amended returns will grow our tax evasion agents get their campaign into full swing.
 do not want to the penitentiaries filled with tax evaders. But to be fair with the honest man the government must deal sternly with the dishonest one. And, to quote the final phrase of President Truman's statement in announcing his indorsement of the Treasurys tax-evasion drive:
 That is just what going to do"