The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-04
BIG BUSINESS OF
REVENUE BUREAU
Total Receipts for the Year Ending
June so, 1905, $2S4,17S,976.
ILLINOIS LEADS THE VAN
PRODUCTION OF WHISKY is IN
cREASlNG.

Yerkes of the internal revenue
bureau. treasury department shows
that the receipts of the bureau for the
year ending June 80 1903, were $23i,-
1896, an excess of 81 PSI 1875 over the
collections for the fiscal year of 1904.
Using as a basis the collections for the
first three months of the current fiscal
year the commissioner estimates that
the receipts from all internal revenue
sources for the fiscal year ending June
50, 1906, viii aggregate S242 000, 600. or
nearly IS 900. 900 in excess of those for
the last fiscal year. During the last
fiscal year there was collected from tax
on distilled spirits 1929. 512 ,62S; on fer
mented liquors, SAC i59,539, and on to-
bacco $40, 659, $40.
Illinois Leads.
The leading states in the payment OF
internal revenue tax for the past year
are Illin.is, S51 ,S92 705; New York, SZl,-
99l, 562; Indiana, $24 652, 244 Kentucky,
S21, 754, 399; Ohio, SIG, 7S2, SIS; Pennsylya-
MIA, Sl9,196,170.
Among the states paying the smallest
amounts are Idaho, Maine, Mississippi.
Nevada, North Dakota Vermont and
Wyoming. In 1904 the total production
of distilled spirits was 139, 505,2l4 gall
Ions; in 1905, 153, 259,379 gallons.
In 1904, I'm round numbers, 11S. 400. 900
gallons of tax-paid spirits were with
drawn; in 1906, III zoe. 900. There has
been an increase in the amount of to-
bacco and snuff manufactured and in
the production of beer.
More Oleo Made.
The amount of colored oleOmargarine
produced shows an increase over 1904,
the amount on which tax was paid
during the fiscal year 1895 being 40 $50,
9S3 p0unls, the tax collected aggregat-
ing $444,9
Commissioner Yerkes discussed the
free work" done by his bureau, such
as sauging of spirits at rectifying
houses; the free stamps used, clerk
hire. etc. and recommends legislation
fixing a charge of 20 cents per stamp
for each stamp issued 10 rectifieTs or
wholesale liquor dealers for use upon
packages prepared and sent out by
them From this source the commits
siOner estimates that an increased rev.
enue of from S1500 900 to 100000 would
be produced The commissioner also
recommends that a tax Of % cents per
gallon be imposed on all sweet wines
rectihed through the United States or
grape brand. The cost of collecting
the internal revenue last year was
81, 705. 296. and the commissioner esti-
mates that the cost for the next fiscal
year would be reduced TO si6S9.120. The
cost is stated 10 ilave been 2.el per cent
the past year as against an average
since the creation of fhe bureau Of So
per cent.
Receipts ltemized.
The internal revenue receipts for the
fiscal year are given as follows:
From spirits. S135, 95S. 513, an increase
over 1904 of S14S, 49,: tobacco. $45. sos,
5I3; increase. $1,O04. 1O1.
Fermented liquors, S50560,55S; in
crease, $6,277.094.
Oieomargarine, $685. AS; increase,
$l2l, 3S1.
Mixed fiours. SI.64S: increase. $S2.S1. .
Adulterated butter SS,9SS; inchrease.
$2.O23.
increase, $15,S61.
Miscellaneous, $1.44l. 1873; decrease. 81
2Sl ,304
There was an increase of 5.I57. 904
pounds IN the quantity Of leaf tobacco
used in the manufacture of taxable to-
baccO products, and an increase Of 3d.
00J, 773 pounds and a decrease of 1894,
62S pounds. respectively, in the guam
tity of domestic leaf exported and for
e1g0 leaf imported, an. an increase OF
40, 4S3, 351 pounds In the quantity of do
mestic leaf tobacco produced, as COM
pared with the previous year.
Duties and Taxes on Tobacco.
The duties and taxes collected from
tobacco during the fiscal year ended
June so. 1905, amounted to SIS, $40, so.
The duty collected upon imported
LEAF manufactured amounted To SIS
S96.940. and that collected upon import
ed tobacco manufactured entered for
consumption amounted To $3 192. 612, the
quantity OF tobacco manufactured dur
ing last year is given as follows:
Plug. 163 379, 30 pounds: twist. 8. 7S3-
211 pounds; fine cut chewing, 12151,003
pounds smoking tobacco 1879. $50
pounds. The number of cigarettes man
ufactured was about l0,Sl1 100000
The quantity Of erain used for the
production of spirits during the last
fiscal year was % 1927 325 bushels. which
is an increase of 2,2S9, 642 bushels over
the year 1904 The yield Of spirits from
each bushel of grain was 447 gallons.
The quantity of mOlasses used for the
production of spirits was 1880. $50 gal
Ions. producing 12,OS6,329 gallons of
spirits.
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