GOP JUGGLING OF TAX BODY TO BE COSTLY
GOPJuggling of Tax Body To Be Costly Survey Shows Millions In Tax Losses To Follow THE Republican administration's manipulation of the state tax department will deprive the state treasury of...
...The first senatorial district embraces Manitowoc, Kewaunee and Door counties...
...The Democratic Party Organization of Wisconsin .spent a total of $2,916 on th ¦ primary, Gustave J. Keller, its president, reported...
...John Cashman, Back In Fold, To Seek Office Announces Plan to Run for Old Seat In State Senate MANITOWOC—John E. Cashman, Denmark, former Progressive state senator who ran for congress on the Democratic ticXet two years ago, announced this week that he has returned to the Progressive fold...
...Heil vetoed the appropriation w'hich was supposed to finance the increase...
...In short, for every dollar saved in auditors' salaries, they throw away $10 in taxes legally owed to the state...
...The club reported receipts of $3,970, expenditures of the same amount, and debts of $3,755...
...The discontinued offices collected in the same fiscal year $147,805 in delinquent taxes...
...The seat was left vacant by the resignation of Francis Yindra...
...In that period they collected more than $526,000 of taxes legally owed to the state, taxes which probably cannot be collected under the new system...
...The 1939 legislature agreed to adhere to federal requirements and passed legislation establishing a $40 maximum for old age pensions...
...Another important source of loss to the state will be the abandonment of established collection procedures...
...Roy E. Kubista, executive secretary of the association, pointed out that dismissal of auditors and closing of district offices of the tax department will break down the state's system of studying the returns of wealthy individuals and corporations — a system which has yielded millions of dollars in the past...
...Under the new federal pension legislation, for whose passage Bob La Follette fought successfully in Washington, the federal government is prepared to pay its share—50 per cent—of $40 a month pensions...
...Heil and Elmer Barlow, $7,000 a year tax commissioner, the league wrote: The League of Women Voters protests the failure of the state bureau of taxation to observe the established rules of the bureau of personnel...
...The entire cost of the abandoned offices was only $94,893 in the fiscal year 1938...
...If Mr...
...2,167 is owed to Fiank J Kuhl...
...1938,'¦ the State Employes association stated...
...Club Reports $3,970 Spent For FR Slate THE Democratic Officially Endorsed Roosevelt-Farley Campaign club, through its secretary Walter Schinz Jr., Milwaukee, reported to the secretary of state last week it had spent $3,970 on behalf of Roosevelt-Farley delegates to the Democratic national convention at Chicago in July...
...The association's attack on Republican juggling of tax commission's offices and personnel was one phase of a triple assault on the whole scheme last week...
...Atty...
...Barlow's reorganization is a permanent arrangement, it will cost the state millions of dollars within a very few years...
...These collections were made from income taxpayers who had filled out their returns incorrectly, who had made erroneous or illegal deductions in their returns, or who had simply not filed returns...
...Manitowoc, last December...
...Keller reported receipts of $2,142, expenditures of $2,-138, and $778 still owing...
...However, as soon as the legislature adjourned...
...Cashman disclosed that he will be a candidate for the first district seat in the state senate on the Progressive ticket...
...The *only method by which the state can hope to collect such revenues, say tax experts, is by thorough auditing of returns—which will be impossible now that the offices are discontinued...
...Tax commission figures show that the Milwaukee office formerly collected about $350,000 per year in additional unreported taxes...
...Report Reveals Breakdown Of Pension Pledge THE monthly report of the state welfare department, issued last week, focused public attention on the complete collapse of the Republican administration's campaign promises to provide an adequate old age pension program...
...Cashman, who has led senate fights for drastic taxation of oleomargarine, served in the senate for 16 years before running for congress in 193<S...
...Official tabulations disclosed that the average pension paid in Wisconsin during March was $22.27, a great deal less than the extravagant amounts held out by Republican spellbinders in the 1938 campaign...
...Four of a total force of 12 auditors there were dismissed, while four new counties were added to the Milwaukee district...
...16,194 Spent On Campaign forVandenberg The Vandenberg for President Club of Wisconsin spent a total of $16,194 In the recent primary, according to figures on file last week in the secretary of state's office...
...A. J. Bieberstein, counsel for discharged employes, charged that the tax department violated the Intent of the legislature in failing to adhere to standard civil service practices...
...In a letter to Gov...
...The ratio of auditing expenses to the amount of additional tax collections for the state as a whole was only 10.3 per cent...
...Even the Milwaukee office, although not entirely discontinued, will be severely handicapped in its attempts to audit returns, investigation shows...
...Under the new system this source of revenue for the state will shrink to almost nothing, and the efforts of the remaining overburdened offices will be correspondingly impeded...
...And in the Dane county circuit court...
...Kubista pointed out in his statement that the charge that the state will lose millions of dollars as a result of the administration's policies is based on careful studies t>y tax experts...
...GOPJuggling of Tax Body To Be Costly Survey Shows Millions In Tax Losses To Follow THE Republican administration's manipulation of the state tax department will deprive the state treasury of millions of dollars in taxes from wealthy taxpayers, according to a statement, based on official estimates, issued last weekend by the Wisconsin State Employes association...
...Roy L. Brecke, secretary of the club, reported receipts of $14,049, expenditures of $13,996, and $2,198 still owing...
...Milwaukee state treasurer ol the national committee...
...The Wisconsin League of Women Voters opened fire on civil service violations practiced by the tax department which is now dominated by Heil appointees...
...Of the debts...
...Official records of the former tax commission reveal that the discontinued offices collected $379,340 in additional unreported taxes in the fiscal year ending June 30...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 18
