Internal Revenue Counsel Talks on Taxes

Washington, D.C.,  - The Senate Finance Committee today (August 6) took up the Roosevelt Tax-on-Wealth Program, and heard from Robert H. Jackson (pictured before committee), Counsel for the Bureau of Internal Revenue.

Mr. Jackson defended proposed higher levies on estates and inheritances, and denounced the validity of the old adage that great wealth is dissipated in three generations. He declared also that the tax system, as of 1930 to 1935 was unsound, and averred that the pending tax program was a move in the direction of reversing the tendency of recent years to place increasing tax burdens on the poorer classes.

Will Fight the Tax Appeal of one of World's Richest Men

Pittsburgh, PA - Robert H. Jackson, Jamestown, N.Y., lawyer, who is the General Counsel of the U.S. Internal Revenue Bureau and Chief Counsel opposing  Andrew W. Mellon's appeal from a $3,000,000 federal levy. The levy was made against Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury (one of the world's richest men), for income taxes and penalties for 1931. The appeal will be made before three members of the U.S. Board of Tax Appeals in Pittsburgh. Mellon's side will be presented by W.A. Seifert; noted tax lawyer, and Frank J. Hogan, Washington, D.C. trial lawyer.