£1,000,000 A YEAR
STATISTICS, OF BIG ; U»S., INCOMES NEW YORK, -Nov. 4. The‘fluctuation of the national fortunes for tho decade from 1914 to 1934 is shown by- the latest published taxation figures. In KUI (it) Americans paid tax on incomes above £2oo;* 000.. Toni years later-the uumbei: had risen to. 76. Between these years the li, pmber of £200,000 incomes rose with the jvar prosperity, to 2,0(5 in 101(5, and d.eclinod in the post-war depression to the low level pf 24 in 1921. , ; T]ip figures for the present and last year r have ,'npt yet been compiled. They are certain to show an increase. The figures for 1924 show that three men paid tax on incomes above £1,000,900. These are presumed to bo Mr. Ford,and his, son and Mr. Rocker feller. The total net income reported by taxpayers for the year was more than £5,000.000, and the taxes paid by nearly 8,000,000 persons totalled £150,oofyo.oo,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16227, 29 December 1926, Page 9
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155£1,000,000 A YEAR Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16227, 29 December 1926, Page 9
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