Reports to Senate Finance Committee on taxation of salaries. Washington, D.C., Feb. 21. Chairman Prentiss M. Brown of Special Senate Committee asserted today that justification of reciprocal state and federal taxation of salaries lies in a just distribution of the tax load. In reporting to Senate Finance Committee Senator Brown said "the main justification for this tax lies in the fact that it is unjust to lay a burden on one class and not lay a tax on another," 2-21-39