Connecticut western news., 1879-10-08
The Revenue of Last Year.
THE AMOUNT PAID BY THE PEOPLE OF THE DIFFERENT STATES COST OF CoLLEC- TIoN-CHANGEs IN INCOME ON DIFFER ENT ARTICLES

THE AMOUNT PAID BY THE PEOPLE OF THE
 DETERRENT sTATEs-OosT OF CoLLEC-
 TIoN-CHANGEs IN INCOME ON DIFFER
 ENT ARTICLES.
 Some interesting facts have been ob. tained respecting the amount of internal revenue collected in the United States during the last fiscal year and the cost of collecting it.
 The whole amount of internal revenue collected was $113, ,561, ,610, and the cost of collection &, ,527, 956. The total re- ceipts were g., 462, ,9S4 greater than for the previous year. It will be under stood that the law reducing the tax on tobacco did not go into effect soon enough to cause any material falling off in the revenue from that source in the last fiscal year.
 While the amount of revenue collected increased over two millions, the cost of collection was $72S, 454 less in 1879 than in 1878. The average cost of collection throughout the whole country was 8 trltie over three per cent. excluding the | much greater than in the States. The eleven States which seeded pad last year $11 ,627, ,08O of internal revenue,
 and the cost of collecting it was $753,
 621, about six and one-halfper cent, or
 more than twice the average cost of col
 lection for the whole country. South
 Carolina paid only $1OS, 782, and the
 cost of collection was $3o, ,535 while
 Nebraska paid more than $877, ,297, and
 the cost of collection was only $15, ,893,
 considerably less than one-half as much.
 Alabama paid $129, ,815, cost $29, ,890.
 while in Connecticut, which paid $52O,' 33O, the collection was only $3O, ,64O'
 Kentucky paid $7, $40, ,sO5 of revenue, o1
 about one-half as much as New York
 but the cost of collection per $1OO Il Kentucky was about fourteen times al
 great as in New York. In Mississippi
 the amount collected was $88, 24o, ant the cost $2O, ,735; in Maine the amour was 1906, 685, and the cost only $16, 725 Tennessee paid $912, ,S59, and the COS of collection was $105,504 while il Michigan the amount paid was $1, 657, 071, and the cost of collection only $4l, , 957. Illinois, New York and Ohio eacl } pad more than all the seeded States ) Illinois paid $19, ,499.914, New Yorl $15, ,45O, 419 and Ohio $15, 919, 756. Tn f cost of collection in these three State was as follows Illinois, $206, 526 Ne1 t York, $252, ,422 Ohio, $196, 433. z The total revenue derived from tn r tax upon banks and bankers other tha . National banks during the last fiscs s year was $3, ,198, ,883, decrease as con |. pared with the previous fiscal year ( f $293, 1A8. The falling off is attribute r to the loss of confidence by depositol 0 in savings banks owing to the numbe y of failures in the last two years and
 the increase in the limit of exemption @ upon deposits by the Act of March d 1879.
 @ The total decrease in the revenue ft @ the months of July and August of u Is present fiscal year, as compared wit e the same period of the previous year. @ $9O, 106. 32, made up as follows D y crease in revenue from tobacco ta d $1,212, ,174. O4 banks and bankers, oth ,s than National banks, $1, ,288.80; mi
 cellaneous, $93, 7S8.55; total, $1, ,307 IS 251. .39 increase in revenue from tax ( e spirits, $1, 034, 575. 19; fermented liquor l. $182, 569.s8 total, $1,217, ,145.07 bs IA ance decrease. $9O, 1O6. .32.