The U.S. collector of Internal Revenue for Brooklyn, N. Y., Joseph P. Marcelle, told a congressional investigating committee in Washington last week how he goes about filling out his own personal income tax returns.
To begin with, in the seven years since Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him to office, he admitted that he has made more than $190,000 by outside work, in addition to his $10,500-a-year salary. In 1948 he had his best year and took in $135,776.
But that year, by the time he had taken his deductions, he reported only $66,981...
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