New-York tribune., 1896-12-13
INTERVAL REVENUE RECEIPTS.
AN INCREASE OF OVER ss.Jo0ooo SHOWN BY
TIE ANIMAL REPORT.


Washington. Dec 1.-THE annual report of Joseph
;. Miller. until recently Commissioner of Internal
Revenue. was made public to-day. The receipts for
the year ended on June 60 1896. STAG, 4G,S3o.GI3
an increase of S33si 53s over the receipts for the
preceding year. For the current fiscal year the
Commissioner estimates tho receipts will Aggregate
$50 00o.00o. Compared with the receipts for the
preceding year, the receipts Of the bureau on the
several objects of internal taxation for the fiscal
year ended on Juno 80 1896. follows: Spir
Its. Ss067o,010 increase Ss074i3 Tobacco. SO
III co increase. $1.op6Ic1 Fermented liquors
S33. 40; increase, s2,1i3.G11. OleomarGarinc.
81 cl9 i2c decrease S1s917s. Banks,.b bankers. etc.
Sl3i (nrst asscssmenO. Miscellaneous. including
penalties, opium for smoking and playing cards.
S4i5113. decrease sls3Goo. Total receipts for the
year. 4G.s3o6l5. an increase OF s3's4''3'
The quantities Of various articles which tax
paid In the fiscal year 1896 ar" as follows: Spir-
It's. distilled from apples. peaches and grapes
1.44OS1O gallons an increase OF %3s l07 gallons over
the preceding year; spirits distilled from materials
other than apples peaches and grapes. G7.o:9.91o
gallons. decrease OF 74l31:o gallons; fermented
liquors 81 SO O9s barrels. increase of 2.2Gi.Gs'
barrels cigars and cheroots. 4237 ,7tI.943 an in
crease Of a., 7S3 5o3 cigarettes weighing not over
three pounds thousand 4o42 3.'l $40 increase
of IA 9S1 500 cigarettes weighing over lhee POUNDS
a thousand 14O7 .G'7. an Increase OF %fs 200 snun.
chewing and smoking. .5$ oG7 131 pounds an an IN,
crease of 539I. .4,0 pounds. oleomargarine 4'623'5
pounds IA decrease OF s97 pounds.
IL is shown by the report that the cost OF collect
ing the internal revenue Si01.ZH2, and the tOin-
missioner estimates that for the fiscal year endlns
on June 60 1885 the expenses OF the bureau VIII De
81 $4,000
Concerning the general condition Of the Office me
Commissioner commends the working OF the SlVii
Service law. The registered distillercs scZ"d IN
year numbered 20; the Illicit disileries seized
and destroyed numbered 1876 and the value OF
propertv reported for seizure aggregated N"N.tH.
No officer or employe OF the bureau was killed III
the discharge of his duty but three were woun1rd
ard $50 persons were arrested for violating 'he III
ternal Revenue law. - 49,
Concerning the general bonded warehouses IN,
Commissioner has this to say: Under the general
provision of the law. the privilege OF iem1V"' 10
the storage in these warehouses Is eNlrhutn 10 az
kinds of distilled spirits without exception, an.
consequently several of the warehouses estaD!lSh'
have been mainly used for temporary occupancy D!
spirits for which the Warehouses served mercy a.
distributing agencies instead OF iurnlshhE Il tg.
yenionl place for the permanent storage oi SP''ts
which require TO be aged and rip,ned, as was 'O'-
tempaled by the statute 81, ;ri,s dc
'.Thc practice of distributing these SlltltS w
signed for immediate consumption from the WIZ,
house rather than from the d!stillcry mas icSu.'u
of course in delaying the payment oi tr ,,n ~
thereon until the expiration or the Peflou ~ ',
the transportation Of the spirits from INC 49,;
,o the warehouse and their subsequent disl'osliot
m ,he trade. and consequently the natural ioSS '
the taxable article occurring during su,h u,lHN -
in respect to the transferred 10 lh' ,
ment instead Of falling upon the o"n'I, "H 80
II has properly been hitherto bofIc. y" -, y.
This condition of affairs. have neeii'u u - ~,
discontinue such Of these warehouses a. W.
;festly not subscribing the purposes OF 'h'' eS'""
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