Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-11-27
Report of Commissioner or Internal
Revenue Douglass.

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
reports receipts for the last fiscal year at
$102, 2,644, ,747, or $2,644,747 in excess of
the estimate The estimate of the cur
rent fiscal year is 100000, 900. The
total drawback on spirits, tobacco, and
general merchandise for the past fiscal
year was $52, ,346, and for 1874, $35, ,495.
No spirits were exported for drawback
during the last year, and the quantity of
tobacco was very slight compared with
the amount exported in bond. The
amounts refunded for taxes Illegally
collected were $618,667 in 1873 and
$239, ,749 in 1874 The receipts from dis
titled spirits for the fiscal year of 1874
were $40 444, 900, net decrease of $2,
655, ,280. 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,O62 taxable
gallons Seizures amounted in value to
S476, 1862 The amount of distilled spir-
it's remaining in warehouse Sept. 80, for
payment of tax, was $12, SIT ,096, making
a decrease of $3,240,613 from June 30.
The amount remaining for export was
reduced in same time from 2,145,010
gallons to 1047,714 gallons.
The annual receipts from all sources
relating to fermented liquors for the year
were $9,3O4, $40.
Receipts from tobacco in all forms,
$33,242, 1875, decrease of 81, 143, ,427, due
to the closing out of bonded warehouses
in the early part of the year and the
effect of the panic. FRem November to
the present time there has been 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
$10,162,754 The receipts for the fiscal
year from this source are expected to ag-
gregate 1886, 900, 900.
The production of tobacco for the last
fiscal year was 118, ,548, ,619pounds, an in
crease over the preceding year OF 2,lO7,-
684 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 10,800,927 pounds, an excess of
nearly three-quarters of million pounds
over the preceding year.
The Commissioner considers it lndls-
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, $3,387, ,000 adj
hesive stamps, $6,136,844; penalties,
$364,216; articles and occupations for
merly taxed, but now exempt, $764, $3.50.
The Commissioner extols the working
of the system abolishing Assessorships
i Al II ffo1 xxyIf II hn
Collectors as securing more prompt pay
ment and larger amount OF tax:
The tax against banks and bankers
realized $4,000, ,734, an increase of $4O3,-
013 over the previous year, notwithstand-
ing the financial disasters OF the fall OF
1873, and is largely due to the new sys-
tenn of assessment, the results OF
which are still more apparent in the rise
from collections from special taxes the
last quarter of the fiscal year 1872, when
they amounted to $3,303, 539, against
1856, ,581 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, cosmet-
les, patent medicines, matches, ETC.,
which yielded last year $6,136,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 So
$4,000, or four cents a pound on tobacco
would yield $4,612,000.