Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-12-04
Internal Revenue Report.

The report of the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue shows that the aggregate receipts
from all sources for the year ending with June
last, exclusive of the direct tax upon lands
and the duty upon the capital, circulation and
deposits of National Banks, were $114, ,O75, ,456.
The amount includes sums refunded and
drawbacks was $50, 346. On spirits, tobacco,
and general merchandise there were refunded
for taxes illegally assessed and collected,
$618, ,667. The receipts from the several
sources relating to distilled spirits were for
the year 1872, $49, ,475 516; for 1873, S52, O99,-
371. Increase in the receipts from the gallon
tax on distilled spirits, $40, 013, ,276; from the
special tax on rectifers and dealers in liquors,
81, ,O94, 264.
A part of this increase was, however, offset
by the loss of nearly $400, 900 during the last
year, by the reduction of the value OF stamps
for spirits other than tax-paid stamps, from
Is cents to 10 cents each, and by the further
loss of little over SO, 600. 600 by the repeal of
certain acts relating to spirits, leaving balance
of more than 81 500, 600 increase in receipts
from all sources relating to spirits.
The production of spirits during the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1873 was, from materials
other than fruit, 6s, 236, ,567 taxable gallons ;
collected on spirits Withdrawn from warehouse
during the fiscal year 1872, $32, 457 235; during
the fiscal year 1878, $41, 102, 921 tax on spirits
withdrawn for export during the fsca! year
1873, 81, ,651 O41. The tax received on imita-
ton wines during the year ending June 80,
1873, was So 551; on fermented liquors at 81
per barrel, for the years y 1877 and 1875 was
Total receipts from tobacco for the fiscal
year ending June 30 1878, were $34, 3S6, 30S:
COMPARED with the total receipts for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1872, there was decrease
descriptions of 81, 172, 917. There was an in
crease in the total receipts from the manu-
facture and sale of tobacco, snuff and cigars,
in all their forms, over the receipts from the
same sources for the preceding fiscal year, of
$780, 1872. One hundred and sixteen millions
four hundred and fifty thousand nine hundred
and thirty-four pounds are given as the actual
product of the year, SO far as such products
have been reported, and showing an increase
over the annual production reported for
the preceding fiscal year of $780, 079
pounds. The number OF cigars cheroots,
ETC.. on which taxes were collected during
the fiscal year ending June 3O, 1873, was
1, ,SO7 1874 646, showing an excess over the num-
Der reported for the preceding fiscal year OF
279, 1928, 674. There was an increase OF 544, oo4
pounds of exported tobacco during the last
fiscal year. The aggregate receipts for the
last fiscal year exceeded the Commissioner
estimate by $4, 075, 456. 1t is estimated that
the total receipts for the current hscal year
will be 500, 000,0 600.
The plan adopted of abohshing the ofhces
of Assessors and Assistant Assessors reduced
expenses 81, ,062, 1927 lower than the estimated
reduction under the eighty-district plan, and
81 ,O6O, 900 lower than the appropriations fo1
| 1878 under the old system. The estimates fol-
the fiscal yegr 1874 show further reduction
of 80, 478, or 81, 069, 450 less than the appro'
priation for the fiscal year 1878, and 81, O72,
285 less than the estimate for 1874 on the eighty
district plan. The Commissioner recommends
that Collectors salaries be fixed at amounts
ranging from 81 500 to $5, 600, and Supervisors
| salaries at "a, 900 per annum, and repeats TN
suggestion contained in his report Nov. II
1871, that Sec. A of the act of July 20, 1868, b.
amended by making the minimum penalt.
smaller, such penalty being now hne OF no
less than $1,000. with not less than 81
| months IMPRISONMENT.
The Commissioner recommends Legislation
limiting the time to July 1, 1874, within
which documentary stamps, issued undeI
| Schedule b, of a greater denomination than
cents, may be presented for exemption. Th
report concludes with the suggestion made
the last annual report that the amendment
July 20, 1865 relating to special taxes of deal
| ers in liquors, should be made more explicit.