American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-12-06
Internal Revenue Report.

| WASHINGTON, November 20-The re-
| port of the Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue 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 :he capital, cir
culation and deposits of National Banks
| were $114075.456. The amount includes
sums refunded and allowed on draw backs.
| The total amount on drawbacks was
| $50, 346. On spirits, tobacco, and general
merchandise there were refunded for taxes
illegally assessed and collected, S618 ,667
The receipts from the several sources re-
lating to distilled spirits were for the year
1872, $49, 475, SIG; Tor 1873, $52 O99 81.
Increase in the receipts from the gallon
tax on distilled spirits, S1OO13,216, from
the special tax on rectifiers and dealers in
liquors, 81 ,094 1854.
A part of this increase was, however,
offset by the loss of nearly S4OO, 900 during
the last year, by the reduction of the value
of Stamps for spirits other than tax-paid
stamps, from % cents to 10 cents each,
and by the further loss of a little over
| $S,0OO,000 by the repeal of certain acts
relating to spirits, leaving a balance of
more than So, 100000 increase in receipts
| from all sources relating to spirits.
The production of spirits during the
| fiscal year ending June 30, 1873, was from
materials other than fruit, 6S. 236, 567 tax
| able gallons; total production from fruit,
| 2,914, 800. Tax collected on spirits with
drawn from warehouse during the fiscal
year 1873 SAL ,102 921; tax on spirits with
drawn for export during the fiscal year
1873, S1,651,041. The tax received on
imitation wines during the year ending
June 3d. 1878, was 3551; on fermented
liquors at 81 per barrel, for the years 1872
and 1873, was $S,009, 500 and $S,910,S23
respectively.
Total receipts from tobacco for the fiscal
year ending June go 1878, were 1874, 1885,
BOB. Compared with the total receipts for
the fiscal year ending June go 1872, there
featured tobacco of all descriptions of
81, 112, 917. There was an increase in the
total receipts from the manufacture and
sale of tobacco, snuff, and cigars,
in all their forms, over the re-
ceipts from the same sources
for the preceding fiscal year of $3.50, 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 show
ing an increase over the annual produc-
ton reported for the preceding fiscal year
of 9,1SO,019 pounds. The number of
cigars, cheroots, etc, on which taxes were
collected during the fiscal year end
ing June so, 1879, was $780,, 134 GAG,
showing an excess over the number re-
ported for the preceding fiscal year of
219, 1923 ga. There was an increase of
ga ,O64 pounds of exported tobacco during
the last fiscal year. The aggregate re-
ceipts for the last fiscal year exceeded the
Commissioners estimate by $4075, 456.
1t is estimated that the total receipts for
the current fiscal year will be sloo,O9O,-
The plan adopted of aboIishing the Off
ces of Assessors and Assistant Assessors
reduced expenses s1,O6e, s27 lower than
the estimated reduction under the eighty
district plan, and 81 100000 lower than
the appropriations for 1873 under the old
system The estimates for the fiscal year
1874 show further reduction of S9,47S,
OF s., O69 45S less than the appropriation
for the fiscal year 1878, and 81 ,072, 2S5 less
than the es innate for 1874 on the eighty
district plan. The Commissioner recon-
mends that Collectors salaries be fixed at
amounts ranging from $4,000 to
s., 900, and Supervisors salaries at
$4,000 per annum, and repeats the
suggestion contained in his report,
Nov. 81, 1871, that Sec A of the act of
July 90, 1868, be amended by making the
minimum penalty smaller, such penalty
being now a fine of not less than 81 900,
with not less than six months imprison-
mtnt.
Inc Commissioner recommends legisla-
ton limiting the time to July 1, 1874,
within which documentary stamps, issued
under Schedule b. of a greater denomina-
ton than cents, may be presented for re-
demption. The report concludes with the
suggestion, made in the last annual re-
port, that the amendments of June 6,
1872 to Sec 50 of the act of July 20,
1868, relating tn special taxes of dealers
in liquors shnnld he made more explicit