Evening star., 1947-03-03
4 |. Capital Transit Gets
.2,779,75t Refund on
: R Tax 10 Lead CITY

! AS Tax 10 Lead City
The Capital Transit Co. receive
$2,779,751 in tax refunds for the fis
cal year 1916, according to Interns
Revenue Bureau records submitte,
to Congress today.
This is by far the largest refun,
! allowed individual residents or cor
porations in Washington. The re
port made public by the Hous
Committee on Expenditures in Ex
ecutiye Departments lists more thai
1000 refunds Of $500 or more il
the District on income taxes, exces
profits taxes and other levies.
4 A Capital Transit Co. official ex
planned his company received tn
refund q year ago and used tn
money to refinance bonds. The re
fund was allowed because of "accel
I Grated amortization of equipment,
he said.
I The excess profits tax refund TO
sthe company amounted to $2,753, ,142
= The remaining s26, 500 was on incom,
tax payments.
/ Income Tax Refund Second.
:. The next largest refund here wa.
$276,577 to the estate of William
Hays Ackland, for which the Ameri-
can Security g. Trust Co. and Edsor
B. Olds, jr., are recorded as execu-
tors. This is an income tax refund
Other big income refunds include
$247, ,033 to the Western Fruit Express
Co., 1l01 Vermont avenue; total OF
$780, ,479s in three separate refunds te
the Washington Railway & Electric
Co.; $62,864 to the estate of Nathan
lei H. Luttrell; $51,914 to William
Littauer, Mayflower Hotel; $30,157
to the Cafritz Construction Co., with
an additional refund of $4,691 on ex-
cess profits taxes.
The Universal Transportation
Corp, 806 Mills Building, was given
a $24,042 refund on excess profits
taxes and $1,l23 on income taxes. =,
The Washington Gas Light Co.
received $2,017 refund on income
taxes, while further refunds of $4,O4:
and 81, $40 are listed for the Wash.
ington Gas Light Co. of Montgomery
County.
A refund of $2,013 went to the FRS
Federal Savings & Loan Associ.
alton Of Washington, 610 Thirteenth
street NV. The National Fedora
ton Of Federal Employees, 10 In
dependence avenue S.W., received
$2,026 for overpayment of employ
ment taxes.
$20,576 to Arcade Co.
Other refunds include $20,576 to
the Arcade Co., care of H. T. Bis
selle, Riggs National Bank; 5000
to Army Mutual Aid Association,
Munitions Building; $17,S31 to j.
g. Bradley, care of Paul E. Schaub,
Munsey Building; $1S,337 in excess
profits tax refunds to M. Cain &
Co., 3315 Eighth street NV: $3l ,461
to Bernard F. Diamond, 2801 Eighth
street NV; $11,844 to Howat Con-
crete Co., Inc, South street S.W.,
Tor income taxes and Slabs for
excess profits taxes; s6,123 to Sidney
B. Lust, Woodley Towers; s1,439 to
Charles Nicholson, Westchester
Apartments; $8.40l to the Flight
Training Research Association, Inc,
1900 Maryland avenue NE.
Alse, $18,623 to Fries, Beall az
Sharp Co., 734 Tenth street NV.
for excess profits taxes; s13,524 to
Galliher & Huguely, Inc, Sherman
avenue and West street NV, for
excess profits taxes; $14,32o to Ju-
Illus Garfinckel & Co., Inc; $12,O4e
to Graham Remedy Co., II p street
NE, for distilled spirits tax; $18,-
102 to Fulton r. Gruver, 969 Selma
road, Silver Spring, Md s., ,8s8 te
Hzmtlton National Bank Tor excess
profits taxes. ''71 =
Also, $6,012 to Harris & Ewing,
Inc; SCOTS to the Harrington Hotel
Co, for excess profits taxes; $10,445
to John E. Hoover, 2230 California
street NV; SLIGO to House of
Slower, Inc, 2035 Seventeenth
street NV; $7,824 to Ourisman
Chevrolet Co. for excess profits
taxes; $9,760 to Paving Supply &
Equipment Co., Tenth and Girard
streets NE; $8,337 to Peoples Per-
sonal Bankers, Inc, now Lenders,
Inc, Mt. Rainier, Md; $15,15O to
Potomac Wine g. Liquor Co., 1915
Fourth street NV.
Roosevelt Hotel Gets S17,372.
Also, $17,372 to Roosevelt Hotel
Corp; $12,323 to ulon-Henderson.
Inc, s31 Maine avenue Sc; s11,875
to Southern Wholesalers, Inc, 1919
l. street NV, for excess profits
taxes: s12,237 to United Clay 81
Supply Co., care of Marvin Haynes,
for excess profits taxes, and $2,225
to the same account for income
taxes; $2,757 to Radio Station WINK
Tor excess profits taxes.
Approximately 3,700 tax refunds of
$500 or more were made to MARYLAND
taxpayers.
The largest Maryland refund was
$452 ,489 to the Rustless Iron & Steel
Corp. of Baltimore for overpayment
Of excess profits taxes.
Railway Gets Two Refunds.
The Western Maryland Railway,
Baltimore, received two refunds
one of $219,756 for overpayment of
income tax and one of $195, ,435 in ex-
cess profits tax.
Triumph Industries, Inc, of Elkton
received an income tax refund of
$244, 4,072, as well as q refund of $143,-