£3,200,000 TAX
WHAT AMERICANS PAY WASHING IO N, September 3. Official figures disclose iho amounts of incotno tax paid by America's richest men. D. Rockefeller. junior, conlinnos to be liif greatc-l indr. idnsil taxpayer, banding ever an amount in excess of (j,250,0(iCd0l (£1,250,01.0). The Lord Motor Company last year paid 16,Ui)0,0(.i0d0l (£3,2eU,000) in tax, while Honrv and Edsel Lord paid 2.000. 00udoL (£400,000) each. Andrew TV. Mellon, Secretary to the Treasury, comes close behind with 1.. 1 J. Run pout .Morgan paid an tneomo tax of 5()i),000dol; President Coolidge, tl.OOOdol; Douglas h'airhanks, 180.000 dollars; and -Mary Bickford, .Tl.OOOdol. Gloria Swanson evidently is flic highest-salaried film star, as site paid 57,000d01. .Vniliam Wrigley, the chewing-gum
magnate, paid BOO.OOOdoI lax a year ago, but only 2,000d0l this year. What he made in diewing gum he lost in the failure of a manufacturing plant which he owned. Henry Leon Wilson, the author, who recently visited Australia, paid i?6,U00 dollars. Charlie Chaplin paid only 34-xlol this year. Lola Negri and Bill Hart parted with lo.UOOdol each; ‘‘Fatty” Arhucklo with O.OOOdol. ami Rudolph Valentino with 2.000d01.
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Evening Star, Issue 19044, 12 September 1925, Page 12
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181£3,200,000 TAX Evening Star, Issue 19044, 12 September 1925, Page 12
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