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[[stamp]]THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES[[/stamp]]

Regulations as to Tax on Salaries, &c.

War Department,
BUREAU REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND A.L.,
WASHINGTON, March 9, 1867.

CIRCULAR}
No. 6.

The attention of Disbursing Officers of this Bureau is invited to Letter of Hon. E. A. Rollins, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, explaining the provisions of Section 13 of an act entitled
"An act to amend existing laws relating to Internal Revenue, and for other purposes," approved March 2, 1867. From and after March 1, 1867, the amount of salaries, &c., exempt from taxation will be One Thousand Dollars per annum, instead of Six Hundred Dollars as heretofore.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Office of Internal Revenue,
WASHINGTON, March 7, 1867.
SIR,-I reply to yours of this date, that the act of March 2, 1867, amendatory of the internal revenue law, provides that the tax therein imposed upon income shall be assessed, collected, and paid upon the gains, profits, and income of the year ending the thirty-first day of December next preceding the time for levying, collecting, and paying said tax, and that the section of the amendatory act which imposes a tax upon salary and compensation of persons in the civil, military, naval, or other service of the Government shall take effect for the month of March, 1867. 
Very respectfully,
E. A. ROLLINS, Commissioner.
G. W. BALLOCH, Brig.-Gen.,
WAR DEPARTMENT
Washington, D.C.

O. O. HOWARD,
Major-General, Commissioner.

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