Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-11
Report of the Commissioner of Inser-
nal Revenue.

Report Of the commissioner OF knser-
nal Revenue.
The report of the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue is an interesting and i'm
pOrtant document. The Commissioner
speaks in favorable terms of the patience
of the people under the burdens of taxa
tion, and shows from statistics that the
aggregate receipts have for the past fiscal
year been largely above those Of the pre-
vious year. The following statement
exhibits the amount of receipts from in
ternal revenue for the past three years.
Receipts for 1863 ten months, )$4I ,OO3, 1872;
1864, $ll6,S5O,672; 1865, S2II,l29, ,52s.
The Commissioner says the actual cost OF
assessing and collecting the internal rev.
enue will amount to two and three
quarters per cent. of the receipts
The actual annual cost for the collection
of the customs amounts to three and one
half per cent. of the receipts, which is
much below the cast of collecting the Gus
toms in Great Britain. Among the ar
ticles from which the internal revenue of
| the United States is derived it NAV be in
teresting to enumerAte the following
Bank dividends, 50, ,9s7, 200; railroad divi-
dends and interest on bonds, 50, ,25s, ,4O4 I;
insurance companies, 81, ,726, 100; salaries
of persons employed by the Government.
| S2,S36, 333; revenue stamps, $II,l62, BOP
being more than double that of the pre-
vIOus year; licenses, Sl2,595, COL; incomes
| $50, SCI, $40 or about six millions more
Ttau IN 4eS4.-
OF the amount collected from incomes
IN 1863, S279, ,333 were returned at i've Der
cent. upon incomes above ten Thousand
dollars, Sl12, 40 at three per cent. upop
incomes of less tina ten thousand dollars
and 1851 upon incomes from limited
States securities. Of that collected in 1854
S6,9l3,S34 were returned at five Der cent
1880, ,O1O at three per cent, and S75 ara
at one and one-half per cent. Oftbat col
/ lected in 1865 SSOl ,94l were returned Il
ten per cent, S9,934, 74S at five per cent.
S9,697, 246 at three per cent, and sls3. 4O2
ut one and One-half per cent.
The receipts from iron and steel in the
variOns forms specifically named were
S9,2l9,7l3, or nearly six millions mora
than the previous year; from refined re-
troleum and coal oil, $3,O47,2l2, being an
increase of about $500. .OO0over 1854. c;Sors
| $3,069, i4S; tobacco, SS,Ol6,Il ferme1tad
liquors, S3,657,o5l; distilled spirits,
SIS, 5,O95,633, or nearly thirteen millions
less than the previous year. The Com
missioner deyotes considerable portion
OF his report to explaining why the re-
ceipts from distilled spirits, with a tax AZ
two dollars per gallon, are so much Lass
than they were when the tax was bnt si~1
ty cents per gallon.
The receipts for the current fiscal vaor
are estimated to reach s272, 600 OOe CO.. ..
about sixty millions more than last yoa-
The Commissioner suggests an slterStion j@a
in the mode Of appointing assistant asses
sors' ana urges an increase in their COM
pensatlon' as well as in that of the clerks
reau. An additional allowance for o15;oo
rent IS also recommended. Tho c.,
missioner suggests several amendments n
relation to stamp duties, the duties Of tbs
Tax Commissioners, and other ehanees .;,s in
the law, whereby doubtful points can be
definitely settled, y