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3'/'BDUONS INCOME i TAXAB1£IN STATE
Uaprcce4*ated Record fer Year
1919 Shown by SUte Conp-
troDer's Record*
Albany, March IJ—Ftgureu made public today toy State Comptroller James A. Wendell show the toUl taxable in¬ come on 760,000 returns flled In payment of the 1»19 New York SUte Income, tajc approached the unprecedented total ot nearly $J,500,000,000.
These figures tell the story uf a golden year in avery buslnuss, trade and pro- fesalon and a wonder period of prosperi¬ ty never equaled in the palmiest finan¬ cial days of tbe I^piro State.
Accoriliitc ta occ'jpatlonal cIt.:?!!!'"^- ' tion Information Just compiled, the sur¬ prisingly largo number of 45,000 returns were filed by commercial traveler* and sales and manufacturers' agents, large¬ ly traveling men. These figures are based on an analysis of over 30,000 re¬ turns,'which show that a very [large number of professional men and women paid an income tax who worked for someone else.
The medical profession In which the Bureau included physicians, dentists, and veterinarians went over the top with l4,20O returns, while 11,200 lawyer* (except Judges) took their pens in hand and made their own returns in additloh to the ones they were retained to make out for clients.
New York Btate clergymen and mem¬ bers of tho lller.iry profession ran a close race for honors in the filing of re¬ turns with the literary men and women leading the church by a scant margin. Recorda disclose 3,400 taxpayers among the bishops, rabbis, priests, curates, min¬ isters and missionaries while the 3,700 total of the Fourth Kstate was swelled by contributions from authors, maga- alne writers, editors, novelists, histor¬ ians, translators, librettists, critics. Journalists and reporters.
Income tax records show that among clergymen and In the literary profes slon, salary advances ta-jnj^k. tremen¬ dous increases in the cost ol*TlvlnK, failed to keep pace with salary Jumps in other professions. The average nel in¬ come of tho clergy subject to tax after including as Income the rental value of the parochial residence or parsonage, although owned by the church and prior to deducting the usual exemptions was »2,865, while the literary fraternity showed an average Of »3,«85. It should be remembered that theso figures refer to persons subject to hu-ome tux and not to the very largo number of clergy¬ men in the .smaller cities anO. villages of the State, whose Imonie does not ex¬ ceed that ot unskilled workmen.
I>arg»r salaries paid to authors, maga¬ zine and motion jiicturo scenario wrltern helped swell the literary avcrag'.'. Song writers In New York CMy "Featherisl their Nest," In 1919 with handsome i-oyaUy'receipts from popular song hits and successful musical shows. Operatic song birds sot n'ew high Income taiC records, and many feminine moving pic¬ ture, slurs after paying their tuxos had enough left to buy a tlo<'k of brown stone fronts on Kivorsldo Drlvt- beside." a pair of front row ticketii! from a thea tre ticket speculator for a Broadway hit. One screen artist now enjoying viopulai fame throughout the country had de¬ ductible business expen.ses totaling ovei 1100,000, Just for stage and screen frock? costing a king's ransom, millinery, hair dressing and chiropofly, furs, lips, prest agents and other incidentals for the year 1919.
Fourteen hundred proprietors of theatres, picture houses, billiard parlors, dance halls, and other public amuse¬ ments, made returns.
Skilled and unskilled labofr led the In come tax parade covering positions from mechanics to un.skillod workmen to the numlMT ot 169,000 and insurance agents and solle.ltoi-s talked tho public info busi¬ ness which netted them suffleient in¬ come to have over 5,000 representatives In the pi-ocession.
Over 49,600 returns wero made by persons giving no occupation. This class
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Federal employees were exempt from i ikCoses t'ornwell. of Observer street, paying the state tax, but city, county j Rockville Centre, while pasiilng on and state oillcUds to the number 'of 47,- curve. Ko one was hurt, though the 600 came across. The Governor, Lieut- j cars were damaged enant Governor, members of the I/cgla
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A total of 11,120 induatriouH farmers Lijyt;.|i, working for themselves flled returns! * while teachers, not in public service, numbered 4,930. Large increases ar<< ex¬ pected in the future owing to substan¬ tial salary raises made by the 1920 Legislature.
Professional accountants and auditors, .statisticians, etc., to the number of 8.000 showed uncanny knowledge, espe¬ cially on deduction features of the law and flled model returns. Thp archUects designed a block of 1,425 income taxers with artists, sculptors. Illustrators, and portrait painters, artistically decorating blanks with their "John Henry" to the number of 2,550.
Knglnecrs and professions for whicli' degrees iire usually <onferred filed 10.- ¦ 300 returns and men engaged in such solemn occupations as embnlmcrs and undertakers together with detectives i and aviators swelled the grand total in | such miscellaneous professions to 3310
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Kockville Centre, March 16.-~Cliai-tci .^ Oak t'ouncil, R. A., is scheduled for a,y big time tomorrow night, when Clrand ^ Regent I^annlng iRoake and hi.s staff',! will attend the birthday party celelira.,y tion in Odd Fellows' ]-lall, Merrick road, ; 4 Kockville Centre. -A large delegation ' •> froin Freeport Council will bo pre.sent, ; ¥ and a class Initiation will be conferred X by the Fraternal Degree Team. [A.
District Deputy Grand Regent K. H. I ^ I'lump. of Freeport Council, will award iX a prize to the member of Charter Oak | * Council, who shall have obtained the ; ^ 1,'reatest number of candidates. '^
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