Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-29
INCREASE IN REVENUE
Internal Revenue Bureau Commits
sioner Wilson Makes Report to
Secretary Of the Treasury.
An Increase Of Over Six and q Hall
Million Dollars in the
Year.
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Illinois Leads in Amount of Revenue
Collected Amendments to Law
Recommended.

Washington, Nov. 2s.-Commissioner
George w. Wilson, Of the internal reve-
nue. bureau, in his report to the secreta-
ry Of the treasury of the operations of
his office for the fiscal year ended June
30, 1899. shows that the receipts from all
sources aggregated $273.4S4,573, an in
crease over the preceding year of s102,-
$4,000 and an increase of s3,4s4,573 over
the estimate of the commissioner made
one year ago. The receipts from the
several sources of revenue during the
last year. and the increases or de-
creases in each, as compared with the
year 1895, are given as follows:
Spirits, sss,2s3,5s4; increase. $685.
5S4
Tobacco. s52,4ss.2 o7; increase, s1e,2o2.-
6S5.
Fermented liquors. sss,e4455s; in
crease, s2s129, 1877.
oleomargarine. s1,s5s.sls; increase.
s64o.s3s.
Filled cheese s1s,oss; increase. sl,57s.
Mixed flour, $3.50; law not in force
last year.
Special taxes not elsewhere enumer-
ated. s4.S61. 5s3: law not in force only a
small part of last year.
Legacies and distributive shares of
personal property, $1,235345.
Stamp taxes under schedule A, of the
war revenue act, sSS,61S,0Si.
Medical proprietary articles and
preparations required to be stamped
under schedule b. of the act, S5,219, 737.
The collections by districts during the
year, where the amount collected is
over sS.000000, are given as follows:
Illinois $47,359523: New York. Sac
$4,000; Pennsylvania. s23,3s5.5I4: Ken
lucky. s2.025,2s4: Ohio s21,441.0Sb; In
diana sl7,2l3.070; Missouri. $685. 75:
Wisconsin, s9.4o7. os5: Massachusetts.
sS.l53,e2O: Maryland, Delaware, District
of Columbia and two counties in Nir-
GINA, ss,13O,40s: New Jersey. s4,074,06l.
The total amount expended in the
collection of revenue during the last
fiscal year was s4.59l,754, or LES per
cent of the collections. This percent
age of the cost is the smallest that has
ever been reached in the history of the
bureau.
The estimated expenses for the next
fiscal year are s4S77,34O. a slight in
crease over the last year.
Figures are presented showing that
the receipts for the first four months
of the current year amounted to Sl03.-
| 1903. ass, an increase over the receipts for
! the corresponding period last year of
/ s9,37s,307. All these things considered,
the commissioner estimates that the re-
] ceipts from all sources for the present
year will approximate s2S5o00, 900.
| which is about s11,500,00D in excess of
/ the receipts for the year closed June 80,
I 1899
During the last year the Office seized
/ 900 Illicit stills, one officers was killed
] ard three wounded. Seven hundred and
/ eleven persons were arrested in counec-
1 ton with Illicit distilllng. which, the
commissioner says, is rather on the in
4 crease in certain sections of the cnun-
try The commissioner recommends
| amendments to existing laws with a
! view TO Increase the revenue from GER
tain kinds of bank checks, patent med
4 icines. parlor and sleeping car tickets
estates of persons residing abroad al
the time of death, and that purchasers
i of documentary and proprietary
~
4 more than per cent when purchased
lin quantities of not less than 500. Sew
ieral changes in the collection of the tax
on distilled spirits are recommended
and also that agricultural fairs be eN-
4 empt from the payment of the revenue
I tax. The commissioner calls attention
to the inadequacy of salaries of collec-
tors of internal revenue and favors ar
amendment 10 the existing law so as
to allow revenue agents 80 day IL
lieu of subsistence. He also favors {
law authorizing the redemption of ad
hesive stamps when presented II
amounts of not less than SO face value
Special attention IS called to the neet
Of an additional deputy commissioner
and it Is recommended that one be au
thorized at salary of $4,000 a year
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