ITEMS OF INTEREST July 15, 1911 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

The income tax bill, which has now passed both branches of the Wisconsin Legislature, provides that:

If an income is over $500 the recipient must make a return to the assessor; if one is unmarried the income will be taxed when it passes the $800 mark; married men are taxed on incomes over $1200. The tax is graduated, starting at one per cent on incomes of $1000 or any part of it and increasing one fourth of 1 per cent on each added $1000 until $12,000 is reached, when the tax is 5½ per cent. Over $12,000 the tax is six per cent.

The treasury department is preparing for what is not only the greatest building project in Washington, but the greatest building project in the country, and one of the greatest which the world has ever seen; the construction of buildings for the departments of state, commerce, labor, and justice. The group has been conceived and studied as a whole, each individual building subordinating itself to a group, and the plan has been approved by the national fine arts commission. It entails an expenditure of eight million dollars.

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