Uneasy

Never before had so many taxpayers seemed so honest. Without even a telephoned prod from an Internal Revenue agent, some 111,000 of them had, since March 15, poured into the Treasury a record $170,000,000 in additional taxes on income which they had not reported. One man who remembered that he had forgotten to report a few items of income dug down voluntarily for $2,000,000.

Treasurymen were not fooled. The wave of suddenly recovered memories dovetailed with another record: a whopping $1,102,000,000 in extra taxes and penalties collected from taxpayers who had tried to short-change the Government and had got caught at it. Most of the 111,000 on the honesty rolls had merely broken out in uneasy sweat and had kicked in voluntarily to avoid trouble. The sorry fact: never before had so many taxpayers tried to cheat in such a big way.

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