New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-03
INDIRECT STATE TAXES.
COMNENDABLE ENERGY OF REPUBLI
CAN OFFICIALS
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Albany Oct 2.--State Controller Gilman made
to-day highly impressive exhibit Of the result
of his and other Republican officials energy
and skill in the collection of the indirect taxes
of the State. The receipts of these taxes have
been increased from 50 167 POS 81 for the fiscal
year ending October 1, 1899, to S11551 $50 II
for the fiscal year ending October 1, 1900.
total increase of s., 49,, 666 81. The low State
rate of 1856 mills Of direct States taxes is
one of the consequences of this success of the
Republican State administration in increasing
the receipts from the indirect taxes.
Three Republican State officials participate
in the honors due for the increase in the col
lections from the indirect taxes-Controller Gill
man, who collects the taxes on corporations and
inheritances; John T. McDonough, Secretary Of
State, who receives the taxes on the organiza-
ton of corporal tons, and Henry H. Lyman. the
State Excise Commissioner
The tabulated statement given below gives
the particulars of this increase in the indirect
tax receipts:
Tax organization of corpora
5.S:s ss; 5se 81. :. ,s:. sas}s S
Totals .................... POS 81 u
Increase 81 SS4 66o 81
Controller Gilman has paid special attention to
the matter of the collection of the inheritance
tax, particularly from nonresident estates. The
total receipts this year from transfer taxes are
81, SO3 81, while those for the preceding year
were only 1874, $40 "a, an increase of So 140.-
191 03. The largest collection heretofore made
from these sources was in the year 1893, when
S3071 687 90 was paid into the State Treasury.
The average amount of the collections for the
years up to and exclusive of the year 1900 was
only 81 493 4O5 40
There is no question that portion Of the large
sum collected in the last fiscal year re
covered through the vigilance of this State OFF,
before the assets could be transferred from the
jurisdiction of the State courts.
The receipts from corporation taxes show
steady increase. This advance has been ma
terial If one COMPARES the seven years Subse-
Quent to 1894, when the collections were $14,-
9S2.071 so, compared with the seven years
preceding, when they were only SS,910,U9 IL,
an increase of S60669S1 81. The statutes have
not been changed materially during this period,
except, perhaps, in the way of moderation, and
the Controller believes it fair to say that the in
crease is due to the more careful administration
and research of the last seven years In further
proof of this he points to the fact that there
are now on the books of his department 6,122
corporations, while in 1898 there only 2,152
paying taxes into the State Treasury.
The enormous increase of receipts from in
direct sources, as shown by the above statement,
will be particularly gratifying to the taxpayers
of the State, and furnishes object lesson
which surely will not be lost at this time. The
payment of the States obligations by receipts
from indirect sources has been advocated by
Republican controllers for some time and the
possibility of its achievement would seem TO be
near at hand. when 1t is seen what be &C
complished through the careful administration
Of laws which not in themselves rigorous
and as far reaching the statutes of some
other States.