RECOVERING
Recovering CHARLES M. DOW, veteran Progressive leader, is reported well on the road to recovery at the Wisconsin General hospital where he underwent a major operation last week. Known to thousands...
...Other speakers will include men active in business and public affairs...
...four...
...Commenting on this statement by Barlow, the Milwaukee Journal said editorially last week: "This may not he 'serious' to the tax commissioner, but it is serious to citizens who want thejr taxes handled efficiently and fairly, and who do not want to discover some fine day that, despite their efforts to file a correct return, they still owe the state money...
...But it won't be serious...
...six: La Crosse, seven...
...Some of the confusion arose from the fact that the department tried to separate income taxpayers into "salaried" or general and "businessmen" classifications, and thus sent out two forms of income tax returns...
...However, the department showed little discrimination in their selection of the two groups, with the result the wrong taxpayers got the wrong blanks in large numbers...
...William E. O'Brien, commission chairman, said that the layoffs had nothing to do with reorganization ofj the commission, but resulted from the $4,500,000 reduction of the com-misison's budget as a consequence of the Republican administration's highway diversion policy...
...Tax Confusion Is Blamed On RevampedBod y New Director Concedes "We'll Miss a Few Dollars" THE state tax department, which was "reorganized" by the Republican administration in the interest of "efficiency," was widely assailed last week for the confusion created by its chaotic distribution of income tax blanks...
...6, and Superior, four...
...Of the 59 to be discharged, only 13 are employed in Madison offices of the commission...
...In addition, the "streamlined" tax department provided for different methods of computing deductions for federal tax payments in the two forms, and the amount of deduction figured out to be higher in one than in the other...
...Eau Claire...
...Phil to Give Talk At Carlton College NORTHFIELD, Minn...
...Known to thousands of Progressives throughout the state for his genial personality and staunch devotion to the Progressive movement, Charley Dow made many new friends when he served as aide to Phil La-Follette during the latter's last two terms in the governor's office...
...Rhinelander...
...Highway Body Bounces 59 in Eight Branches DISMISSAL of 59 employes of the state highway commission, the overwhelming majority of whom work and live in cities outside of Madison, was announced by the com-misison last week...
...The remainder is distributed as follows: Milwaukee...
...Bungling of this sort, continued without change for a second year, is absolutely inexcusable in a department which, because it has its hand in the taxpayer's pocket, has a responsibility beyond the ordinary...
...Lancaster, three: Green Bay...
...Phillip F. La Follette, former governor of Wisconsin, will lead the Carlton college conference on vocational training here Apr...
...Elmer Barlow, director of the department, excused the mistake by saying: "I suppose we'll miss a few dollars here and there on that feature...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 12
