The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-12-18
1914 Income
TAX YIELD PUT
At SS7,0O0,000
Internal Revenue Collections for
Past Year Total $344, 4,453,
a $2l,s9s,154 Gain
ILLINOIS HAS PAID MOST
INTERNAL REVENUE TAXES
New York Leads in Taxes Paid
For Manufacture Of Coffin
Nails During 1912

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| Is predominant in the annual report
; Of w. H. Osborn, Internal Revenue
! Commissioner, made public today.
Collections for the fiscal year end
ed June 80 last totalled $344,424.-
453.Si, which is $21,S9S,15412
| more than the best previous fiscal
year, l9l T.. He estimated collections
for 1914 viii increase to 100000 =
eco and for 1915 to $420, 100000
These increases are largely due to
, the new income tax. The report
SAYS in part:
CORPORATION collected for the
first three months of the fiscal year
iat4 amounted to $2,35S,17776. as
compared with sIS20,379.S2 dur
ing tht fret three month of the
fiscal year 1918.
II estimate the collections for
the fiscal year 1874 at s407, ,900, 600,
distributed rs follows:
Collections. exclusive of the
corporation excise tax and income
tax, s313.O0o 600; corporation OK
else tax, sS,0Oo,00o; income tax,
corporations, $4,000, coo; irdiyid
auls, $4,000. 600. a total Of SS7.-
ooo,0oo
Hc ettimatea the collections for
fiscal year 1913 atssfo,NAaoO0, and
aistrifsitsd as followe
"Collect'ous exclusive of tho IN
come tax $3t5 ooQ.ooo; income
taw, rorporatlons. 10000 no0: ir-
IL i1aals SGI0o0,o0o, total Of
$1o5.ooo.oOo.
Illinois Leads in Sp rits.
9Th objects of internal tavatioa
producing the largest amount of in
ternal revenue during the past fis-
cal year are distilled spirits, exclu-
sive Of special taxes, $157,542,-
O6t.75; ferm2nted liquors, exclusive
of special taxes, $65.245,54s.4O;@ a
manufactured tobacco, $76,7S9,42t,-
Is.
"Tho states in which the largest
COLLECTION Of internal revenue taxes
were made during the fiscal yeas
1913, trn:
Illinois. $5s.So2,6O1.36; New
York, S47,25o,446.34; Kentucky, !,
s35. .2oO,9Gf.44; indiana, f$31,6
O569; Pennsylvania, $2S,953.-
53o.66; Ohio, s25,16aaE710
Tho fiscal year 1919 witnessed
record production and record
thdrawal of distilled spirits,
substantial increase in the produr-
tion of fermented liquors. an iu-
crease in the amount OF tobacco and
snuff manufactured, also in the
number Of large cigars, and n pho
nomenal increase in small cigarets,
considerable increase in the pro-
duetton of oleomargerine, and q
very large increase in corporation
tax assessments and collections.
In the fiscal year 1912 the tota,
production of distilled spirits was
1S7,57LS0s gallons; in 1913, 193,-
606,2l5 gallons.
The three state which have the
largest production of distilled apir-
its during the past fiscal year are:
Illinois, 43,9G4,336 gallons; Ken
lucky, 43,4O484O; Indiana, 2S,-
552,3l6 gallons.
"The FIVE state which produce the
largest quantity of fermented liq-
uors are New York, 13,956,S7S bar
rels; Pennsylvania. 1859, 500 bar
rels; Illinois. 6,656,S23 barrels:
Wisconsin, 5,171.119 barrels; Ohio
I5,150,tS7 barrels"
Growth of Corporations.
Taking up further the phenom
enal increase IN small ciearets" the
report states that New York leads
IN production Of "coffn nails"
weighing less than mounds
Thousand with 7.0s5.72S.676 for the
calendar year 1919: Virginia is
second with 2.586.596.1so yhe
total leaped in twelve-mcDths fram
t0.4G9.221,l01 to t3.167.09S.515,
while At tho same time the produc-
tion af cigars fell of considerably.
The total number of corporatlons
filing returns for the calendar year
lfG12 is 05.336, an increase of
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