The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-27
Greatest Total of Internal Rev
enue Receipts in History.
Thirty-Five Millions More
Than Last Year.
TRICKED BY INCOME TAX LAW
Collections $42,OOO,OOO Below
Framers' Estimate.
Depression Due to European
War Keeps Figures Down.

Washington, Aug. 27.-The greatest
total of internal revenue receipts in
the history of the government, with
income tax from individuals, never
theless, $42,00O,0OO under the amount
estimated by the trainers of the in
come tax law when it was enacted.
was recorded in the annual report of
the commissioner of internal revenue
today.
The aggregate receipts during the
fiscal year ended June 80, including
the corporation and individual income
taxes, reached $415, 100000, against
$3S0, 100000 fer the previous year.
Corporations paid in $39,144,529 and
/ individuals $41,046,166, a total of $780,
1906 This is an increase of S.
S09,42O over the previous year, which,
however, embraced only ten months.
The returns approximate the esti-
mates made last year by the internal
revenue bureau, which figured the
1915 revenue at s40,0O0,0OO each from
corporation and individual tax.
War Disturbs Estimates.
In congress when the law was en-
acted the trainers of the bill an
nOunced that for the fiscal year 1915
the corporation tax revenue would be
S39, 100000 and income tax $50, ,000,-
900, the latter being double the actual
collection from that source.
that the worldwide depression on ac-
count of the war in 1914 partly ex-
planned the falling off from the origi-
nal estimate, and that While the fam
efs of the law figured that there were
at least 100 people in the United
States with incomes of S1,000,000 or
more, there were only fOrty-one hav-
ing such incomes. OF the $41,000,OU
! income tax from individuals, the nor
NAL tax produced SIG, 100000, while
for the larger incomes the returns
show: From incomes between $4,000
and $4,000, revenue $4,09S,o73; $780,
600 o-s75s9oo, revenue s2.4s6. .496; S75.-
/ COOS zoe. revenue $2,099, ,634;
500, ,000-$250, GOO, revenue, $o,945,-
l79S; 250.000-$50O,00O revenue $3.-
32S.423: above 100000 revenue So
439.004, the accepted offers in com
promise making up the total
New York Pays Most.
New York, with S1O,221,2O7 corpor-
alton tax revenue and $17, ,53
from individuals, produced by far the
greatest federal income tax revenue OF
all the states; PENNSYLVANIA was next
with $4,725,139 corporation and 81,
642.557 Individual; Illinois third, with
S2,9S3, 52T corporation and $2,67Q.63O
individual; Massachusetts fourth, with
81, ,S57. .051 corporation and $2,683. .Os4
individual; and Ohio, fifth, with S2,-
53S,05S corporation and $1,4S9,402 in
dividual. None of the other states
reached 100000 mark in either cor
porauOn or lndlV1dual income revenue.
Emergency Measures Swell Fund.
Under the emergency revenue law
enacted last October the treasury col
lected $50, 2,069,126. This included $50
494,475 from documentary stamps,
S17.1S3,060 from special taxes from
bankers. brokers and others, with
$4,000 from theaters, concert halls
and circuses. A new item of revenue
under the anti-narcotic law was $24S,-
406 from manufacturers, importers or
distributors of opium.
The ordinary internal revenue col
lections. exclusive Of those from the
emergency revenue law of last year
as compared with the previous fiscal
year show these decreases in receipts:
Distilled spirits, s16,924,163; tobacco,
$2,515. 5.SS2; fermented liquids. S6.466,-
246, a net decrease of more than $685.
100000.