St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-15
INTERNAL REVENUE REPORT.
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WASHINGTON, Nov, 1.-THE commits.
siener of internal revenue has published his
annual report to the secretary of the treas.
printed pages and gives detailed account
of the operations of the internal revenue
service during the past fiscal year as COM
pared with previous years. The total re-
ceipts from all sources of internal revenue
taxation for the fiscal year ended June 80,
1886, were SIG. .902, S69, as compared with
3112, 421, 121 for the year 1885. $121, $50,
O39 for the year 1884. S144. 553, 344 for the
year 1888, and S146, 523, ,273 for the year
1882. A statement of Withdrawals for
consumption during the past year, as COM
pared with the preceding year, shows a
large increase of all articles of taxation
except snuff, of which there was decrease
of $195. TAT. The principal increase
was IN cigars, cigarettes and
spirits distilled from grain. The
cost of collection during the year
was $4 299. 485, being about 3.6 per cent of
the amount collected. The collections
during the previous year cost $4 455, ,43O, or
3.9 per cent. of the amount collected. The
receipts during the first three months of
the present fiscal year were $2S. .904, 904. an
increase of $3.50, AL over the receipts during
the corresponding period of last year. The
increase was mostly on tobacco and fer
mented liquors, although there was a
small
INCREASE IN THE RECEIPTS
from spirits distilled from apples peaches
or grapes The principal decrease was in
the tax on spirits distilled from materials
other than apples, peaches or grapes and in
the special retail liquor dealers tax. 1t is
estimated that S118. 600, 900 will be col
lected during the current fiscal year from
the various sources of internal revenue In
making this estimate Commissioner Miller
SAYS his Office is much embarrassed by the
presence of new source of revenue (oleo-
margarine), and the entire absence of any
statistical information as to the quantity
manufactured, the number of factories en-
gagged in it's production and the number of
persons or firms engaged in selling the same
as wholesale and retail dealers. 1t was
estimated that the receipts for the last fiscal
year would be not less than S115,0 900, 00O
The actual receipts exceed that sum by
81, 902, 869. Eight hundred and siXty-eight
violations of internal revenue law have
been reported by revenue agents during the
year, 637 persons have been arrested on
Their information, property to the value of
S136, 805 has been reported by them for
seizure and S124. 020 for assessment for un-
paid taxes and penalties. The number of
illicit stills seized during the year was 564
and the number of persons employed
therein arrested was 1914. The seizures
were principally in Georgia, North Caro-
lima. Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia.
dQd in do
tecting and Furnishing persons for
VIOLATIONS OF INTERNAL REVENUE LAWS
was S42, 561. Property to the value of
1886. 982 was seized during the year for
violations of the law. The estimated ex-
penses for the next fiscal year amount to
81. 1856. .440. of which $1,000, 900 is for sal
aries and expenses of collectors, 81, $50. 900
for salaries and expenses of revenue agents,
surveyors, storekeepers, etc., and 1866, 440
for salaries and officers and employees of
the commissioners office. The estimates
for salaries of collectors are based on an es-
innate of their probable collections. The
estimate for the commissioners office i'll
clude an appropriation for an additional
chief of division and increase of force rem
dered necessary by the oleOmargarine law.
The number of stamps issued during the
year was $50. 061, 029, and their value $135,
liz. 305. The aggregate amount OF taxes
collected from tobacco during the
fiscal year was S27. 907. 362. This
includes Internal revenue taxes
imposed on imported manufactured tobacco
and snuff and on cigars and cigarettes. The
increase of collections for the last fiscal year
over those for the previous year was from
manufactured tobacco, SS65, 025; cigars and
cigarettes. S5S1. $50; special taxes, s53, ,69S.
The production account shows an increase
in manufactured tobacco of lG.798. 2S6
pounds, in the number of cigars and cga-
rettes of 433, 507, 242. in tobacco exported
Of 9,369, 220. The number of cigars
imported during the fiscal year ended June
80. 1886. was 73, 139, 07S. The value of the
manufactured tobacco imported was $685.
939. The amount of direct tax still due is
co seQ 900