Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-11-27
Report of Commissioner Douglass.

wAsHrNsroN. Nov. 49,
| The report of Commissioner of Inter-
nal Revenue Douglass gives receipts for
the last fiscal year as $102, ,644, TAI, or
81, ,644,747 in excess of the estimate.
The estimate of the current fiscal year is
$107 7000,00 The total drawback on
spirits, tobacco, and general merchandise
for the past fiscal year was $52, 2,346, and
for 1874, $35, ,495. No spirits were ex.
ported for drawback during the last year,
and the quantity of tobacco was very
slight compared with the amount ex-
ported In bond. The amounts refunded
for taxes illegally collected were $019,-
667 in 1878 and $3.50, 749 in 1874.
The receipts from distilled spirits
for the fiscal year of 1874 were
S49, ,444O9O, net decrease of So.
1902 The receipts from special taxes
on rectifiers and dealers show an increase
of $799,413. The production of spirits
during the year was 69,572 ,062 taxable
gallons. Seizures amounted in value to
$476,362. The amount of distilled spirits
remaining in warehouse Sept. 30, for
payment of tax, was $12,577 ,096, making
a decrease of $3,240,613 from June 30.
The amount remaining for export was
reduced in same time from 2,i45, ,010
gallons to LOAF, ia gallons.
The annual receipts from all sources
relating to fermented liquors for the year
were $9,304,679.
Receipts from tobacco in all forms,
$33, 242 S75, a decrease of S1,143,427, due
to the closing out of bonded warehouses
in the early part of the year and the eff.
feet of the panic. From November to
the present time there has been a steady
increase of collections over any previous
corresponding period. The largest
amount collected in any quarter was the
first quarter of the present fiscal year
$40, 162, 754. The receipts of the fiscal
year from this source are expected to ag
gregate $36IO00000
The production of tobacco for the last
fiscal year was 11S,549, $40 pounds, an in
crease oversthe preceding year of 2, ,107,-
6S4 pounds. The number of cigars,
cheroots, etc, on which taxes was col
lected was 1886, ,697, ,498, or 70, ,662, S52 in
excess of the previous year The guam
tity of tobacco removed without payment
of tax for expectation for the fiscal year
was 10,SO0,927 pounds, an excess of
nearly three-quarters of million pounds
yer the preceding year.
The Commissioner considers it indis-
pensably necessary to control the move
ment of raw or leaf tobacco by the con-
tinuance of the leaf clause of the act of
June 6, 1872
The receipts from other sources were (:
Bank deposits, savings banks, capital
and bank circulation, $33S7 600; adhe-
sive stamps, $6,136,S44; penalties, 1884,
2l6; articles and occupations formerly
taxed, but now exempt, S784,SS0.
The Commissioner eXtols the working
of the systeri abolishing Assessorships
and leaving the whole matter with the
Collectors as securing more prompt pay
ment and larger amount of tax.
The tax against banks and bankers re-
allied $4,000, ,734, an increase of $403, ,013
over the previous year, Notwithstanding
the financial disasters of the fall of 1873,
and is largely due to the new
system of assessment, the results of
which are still more apparent in the rise
from collections from special taxes the
asst quarter of the fiscal year 1872, when
they amounted to $3,303, $50, against
s., 1855, 5S1 in the last quarter of the fiscal
year 1874
The Commissioner suggests that the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing, here
after, upon his requisition, furnish all
the stamps necessary under the law eX-
cept proprietary and documentary, and
asks positive provision from Congress
upon the subject.
Should Congress wish to abolish stamps
on bank checks, etc, perfumery, cos
metics, patent medicines, matches, etc,
which yielded last year 1886, ,S44 (but
he is still of opinion that the revenue
cannot be reduced with safety, the Com
missioner says an equivalent could be
had by increasing the tax on spirits ten
cents per gallon, which would yield $6,
957, 900, or four cents pound on tobacco
would Weld S4612.0OO.