The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-12-21
INTERNAL REPORT


The Acting Commissioner OF Internal
Revenue reports that the aggregaterecelpts
from I'll sources of internal revenue tex
elusive of the direct tax upon lands' ana
the duty upon the circulation ana oepGsi's
of National Banks), were for me 1rcal
wear ending June 80, 1871, $l44ol A'1'o'
ID This sum includes the amounts re-
funded and allowed on draw oacKs.
Draw backs have been allowed on general
merchandise amounting to S@2,oo19':
This amount is larger than that allowed
for the nrevious year, on account OF the
adjudication OF old claims tor drawbacks
on cotton Goods rendered admissible by
Joint resolution No. IS, approved July "A,
1870 There was refunded during the
past fiscal year,tnr taxes lllegaiiy assessor
and collected, $617,561. This large IN
crease over the year preceding was que
to the adjustment of claims that had been
suspended during former years Tor more
contpiete consideration. The class IN
cludes the claim OF one of the States
amounting to $40, 500, for taxes collected
on dividends upon stock owned by the
State. This vas the largest claim ever
allowed by the bureau, ane was referred
to the Attorney General tor bis advice
The Commissioners estimate OF re-
GENTS for the current fiscal year under
the present law is $125, 100000.
SPIRITS
The number OF disrileries (other than
fruit registered during the last nscal
wear was 1,O43, The number OF fruit DIS
filleries registered with 7,l49 The mum
Der of distilleries registered was ,l9@. Oh
the dlstileries (other than frait) 5l7 were
operated during the year; and OF the
frpit distiIleries A,OG7 The returns show
q total production in taxable gallons from
material other than frnit of 54,576, 446 :;
and from fruit, 2199,7s3 total yearly
production, Sc ,776 100 gallons. The total
quantity of spirits in the United States
not internal revenue warehouses May l,
1871, was 41,159713 proof gallons, de-
crease in quantity on Market since No
vember 10, 1870, 4,452, $50 gallons. The
receipts from spirits for the year were
948 281 .848. The amount of tax received
on ftrmented liquors at S. barrel was
S715974O. The increase over former
wears is believed to be due IN part, at
least, to the greater attention gwen TO
that subject by the internal revenue
officers. This attention has revealed
some defects in The law which call Tor
early remedial legislation.
TOBACCO.
The total receipts from tobacco for the
fiscal wear were $33, ATS, O9718,an increase
Of S2,228,190 over the preceding year.
The manufactured tobacco on which taxes
were collected was as follows: Chewing
tobacco, snuff, &C., class 80 cents, o4,617,-
S6S pounds smoking tobacco, scraps.
shorts, &C., class 16 cents, 30,5l7,636
pounds. Add to this the quantity ex-
ported, 1e, 621 ,082 pounds, and the ex-
cess remaining in warehouses june 30,
1871. over June 80, 1870,72,377 pounds,
giving total product for the year of
los, 828,963 pounds. The total number
of cigars, cheroots, &C, on which taxes
were collected, was 1,332,844, 357. The
steady and uniform increase from month
to month in the revenues derived from
manufactured tobacco, cigars, DC, since
the present lay went into operation, by
which the mode of collecting taxes On
these articles was changed from assess.
ment after removal from the place OF
manufacture to prepayment by means Of
suitable stamps before the goods are re
moved from the place of manufacture has
fully demonstrated the superiority OF tbs
present system. But notwithstanding
the encouraging progress that has bsen
made, the Commissioner is forced to the
conclusion that during the last fiscal yeal
much tobacco has escaped taxation
through the reflling of empty stamped
packages the second use Of stamps; tbs
use of counterfeit strmps; the removal Of
small quantities from the place OF manu-
facture without stamps, and the stamp
ing as "class Is cents" of tobacco, which
under the law, should have been stampec
at the rate of 80 cents per pound. A
uniform rate of tax, while it would allow
every manufacturer to manipulate his
products in his own way, without res
trict1ens being placed upon his modes Of
manufacturing would effectually close the
door to the Preparation of fraud or the
evasion of taxes by improper classified
tions. His own opinion is that, with .
tax at "a cents, taking into account the
natural increase Of the revenue as shown
by comparison between the collections o.
succeeding years,and with the advantage
efsorne legislation hereinafter recommend
ed, we shall be able to keep the collec
tiOns on tobacco up to those under th,
present rates. If, however it should b,
the opinion of Congress that the yield 0
internal revenue should not be MATERIAL,
decreased, then, to compensate in part t.
the revenue the expected large loss from
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