SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS PUBLICATION OF INCOME TAX RETURNS
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On May 25, 1925, The Washington Times reports that today the United States Supreme Court upheld as legal the publication of tax returns in American newspapers.
In its front-page item, The Times states...
"This opinion was rendered by the court in a decision upholding the publication of income returns in the Kansas City Post and reaffirmed...later in legalizing similar publications in the Baltimore Post."
JFK+50 NOTE
The Court's ruling in U.S. v Dickey upheld the provision in the Revenue Act of 1924 that allowed the Internal Revenue Service to make public taxpayers names, addresses and amount of income tax paid.
In 1926 the provision was repealed after complaints of "invasion of privacy."
SOURCE
"Income Tax Publicity Upheld by U.S. Supreme Court," The Washington Times, May 25, 1925, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
