Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 19, 1920, Page 5

NETS MILLION A YEAR DESPITE BIG | LOSS IN COLLECTING PORTION FREDERIC W. WASHINGTON, Aig, 19.—Th HASKIN. contribution to the support of the government by those people who pay admission to theaters aggregates for the United States $50,000,000 a year. * The average individual who pays 10 or 20 or 30 cents for admis- sion into a moving picture show and an additional | or 2 or 3 pen- nies fut:tax to the government, rarely stops to visualize the sum total |, of these pennies when they are finally scraped together and turned over to the Treasury Department at Washin! ton to be used in defraying the «x- penses of government. Were they to arrive at the Treasury, in two-horse drays, there would be a string of them six’ miles long, bearing 2,000. tons of pennies, Few peuple appreciate the o:ganiza-| tign that is.necessary in the collection of these pennies—the complications of the task of seeing to it that wvocy theater that sells tickets turny in the tax money to the government. ‘ Delinquent Theaters Tast week the United States «pocial agents stationed in Chicago mado x survey of the situation to. det mince whether or not the government is . et- ting all that is coming to it from this amusement tax. It found that in ‘he internal revenue. district in. wien Chi cago is located there were 150 theaters which were in arrears in the payment of the amounts due the goyernmeat. Orders immediately went | forward from Washington for drastic action a + Dringing these delinquent theaters up | fo the mark. At the same time a Hlanket order was sent out to the sixty: four collectors of internnl revenue in the sixty-four districts. instructing each to survey his field to determine what theaters were in arrears and to take the necessary action to collect ail moneys due to date. ‘This action calls! Attention to. the necessity which lies | with the federal government of know- ing every ticket which is sold te every performance everywhere and get ing its ter per cent tax on that ticket. That he may collect the money due the government it Is necessary that} each collector should know of e theater that is operating in his district There* are two requirements which make it impossible for a theater to give an entertainment without the authorities knowing about it. In the first place, it must haye a license is- sugl by the community in which it ex- | ists. The local police authorities see to it that no places of amusement run without the necessary license. In ad- dition “to this, a federal license is re- quired of theater; A little moving picture show whi//h has a seating cap- acity of not more than 250 must take out a license for which it pays the government $50 a year. If it has morc | than 250 seats and not more than 500, it must pay $100 a year, If it has more ithan 500 and not more than 800 seats it must pay $150 a year, and if it has than 800-seats.jt_must_pay $200: a year, The law further provides that in cities of 5000 or less the tax will be If the amounts, named above. This direct tax on theaters nets the federal government nearly. million and a “th dollars a year. This tax is paid by the theater itself, while the tax on @d- mission is paid by the individual who buys theticket. The fact that Dimas of amusement must take out this ‘fed. eral license gives the governmeat a complete list of all theaters operated./eyes. For years her eyes were red and ; How Country is Divided One of the 64 ifternal revenue dis- tricts. may cover an entire state or it may: cover two states. The ‘Maryland district, for example includes that statc and in addition the District of Coium- bia. The collector has his headquar- ters at Baltimore, but he has a deputy collector at Washington. It is the duty of this deputy collector to see that Washington pays all of its internal revenue taxes. Among these are the txes on admissions 10 theaters and this deputy collector must make sure that everybody who goes to a show is paying the proper tax and that the tax fis finding its way regularly into the treasury. The deputy collector at Washington has eighteen revenue agents wouching under him and the city is divided among them. They look over the list regularly and see that collections do not fail, In addition to this, they must know that each theater is paying in the full and correct amount dus the government. That they may assure themselves on this point they hav» the privilege of going to any place of en- tertainment at any time and examin- ing the books, This, howaver, is not jsufficient because thdy must know that books are not being falsified to the benefit of the indfvidual theater manager. Protection Through the Printer There are many devices to which the internal reyenue agents resort to us- sure themselves that the government is not Weing defrauded. The most in: genious of these, and one for which provision is made in the law itself, is that of requiring that all printers who make tiekets for theaters shall 1cport all work done to the collector vt inter- nal revenue. Most of the theater tick ets in the United States are printed by four’ or five firms that mpaciiiteb upon this work. Not more th. e per cent of tickets are printed in Iwai shons. The detail of ctearing i); tick- ets printed through these large >t: lishments is well systematized and :,om them the government gets copies of every bill presented every tneater man- ager on their lst. These bills are distributed to the col- Jectors and the deputy collectors and finally to the individual agents who are assigned to the examination of given theaters. An agent, knowing that a certain theater had ordered a million PIONEER PHONE 345 Sandison & Fiddes THOS, FIDDES, Manager Jerner Fourth and Jefferson Ste. Prompt Service We Deliver jis that there is some doubt as to his FFFFFTI TIT I ITIL tickets In a year would “expect the sales reported and the stock of tickets on hand to tally a million. If there is any diserepancy he is sure to go to the theater in question and ask an ex- planation. If tickets have been printed by any other agency his examination will develop that fact beeause all tick- ets must be subject to inspection. If ‘tickets were found, the printing of | Which had not been reported to inter- nol revenue, both the printer and the theater would have violated the law, It would be performance so dangerous that there ts little probability of either printer or exhibitor resorting to it. The law requires that all places of ; Amusement must use tickets and that these must show the price of admission, the amount of the tax and the total, ; and also imposes a penalty for fail- ure to use tickets of for the «use of | tickets improperly printed. Thus does it become impossible for a theater to print tickets that sell for any other amount than that which appears on them. So the government -is assured ;that it will ultimately receive from any theater the amount of money called for | by the tickets that are printed for that theater, WYOMING SUPERINTENDENT: ON UNION PACIFIC OES CHEYENNE, Ws McDuffie, superinte: nt of the Wyo- ming division. of the Union Pacific, died Tuesday morning, after an illness of several months duration. He recent- ly was granted an indefinite Jeave of absence because of sickness. He had been employed by the Union Pacifi: on the Wyoming division for a score of years, during the period rising from the Position of wayside stmtion telegeiph operator to that of operating ex: tive of the 500-mile division. Si Sacer A curious circumstance connected with Robert Emrhet, the Irish martyr, burial place. Following his execution, his body was interred in Bull's skere, near Kilmainham, but the remains are believed to have been afterwards re- moved to St, Michael’s churchyard or to Glasnevin cemetery. 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