The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-12-01
COLLECTING INTERNAL
REVENUE IN WEST Va.
AN EXPENSIVE LUXURY
COST IN THIS STATE TWICE AS
MUCH AS THE AVERAGE FOR
THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.
Collections in State Amounted to a
Large Sum General Gossip
of National Capital.
(By John w. F1enner.O


WASHINGTON. Nov. 30.-While the
cost Of collecting the internal revenue
Of the United States for the fiscal
wear ended June go 1916, was $l4.O4
per 1000, of 1.40 per cent, the cost
of collecting the internal revenue in
West Virginia was s29.47 per $1,000,
or 2.94 per cent, as shown by the an
nual report Of the commissioner OF
internal revenue, Just out for the last
year. The report says: Ihe lnternal
revenue receipts for the fiscal year
1916 amounted TO S5l2, 3.2Sl.u. and
this represents the largest collection
/ in any fiscal year since the internal
revenue was established in 1862. The
cost Of collecting the internal revenue
al the rate Of lao per cent for the
fiscal year 1916 represents the lowest
cost Of collection in the last aO
years" The average cost Of collec-
ton since the establishment of the
bureau is given as 2.43 per cent, so
the cost OF maintaing the office OF the
collector of internal revenue in West
Virginia is greater than the average
cost for the entire country for half
century and more than double the
cost Of collecting the revenue in the
United States generally at the same
time. The total collections for West
Virginia for the year were 5000 1916.
The cost Of collecting this was $751;
IST2,61, divided as follows: salaries
and expenses of collectors. S31 ,098.99;
salsre and expenses OF agents, ETC..
$4,696.39: miscellaneous expenses.
$517.07; refunding internal revenue
collections, $275; collecting the in
come tax, $9,645: restricting the sale
of opium. ETC., S3,530.65; salaries and
expenses of collectors under the act
of Oct. %, 1914, $12.l14.5l.
Collections for West Virginia..
The collections for West Virginia
for the year were composed Of ordin-
airy internal revenue, Sl,276,999.95;
emergency revenue. 357,913.46; cor.
poration income tax, 1892 1892; indi-
rldual income tax, S132,064.13.
The individual income tax was paid
by 1896 persons, Of whom 2S5 we're
single men, 81 single women and 1890
were married, including Is married
women who made individual returns Of
incomes apart from those of their hus-
bands The number Of income lax
payers Of the different classes is as
follows: From $4,000 to $4.OQ0-447;
from $4,000 to S5,000-375: from $4,000
to s10.000-711; from $4,000 10 $4,000
1876: from $4,000 to s20.000-S7
from $40. 600 to SIS .oON-41; from $685.
900 to $40 .00n-4l: from $40, 900 to s4p,-
O00-34; from $4,000 to $50 .000-ll
from $4,000 TO s75,oO0--14; from S75.-
000 to s1o0.000-9: from 100000 TO
$3.50. o00---G: from s16n,0no to 100000
3: from $500 900 TO $3.50. 000-l; from
5000, 900 TO $500, 0N0--1.
The report shows that 145,290,952
cigars were made in the State during
the calendar year 1918, weighing mora
than three pounds 10 the thousand,
and $4,000 weighing not more than
| three pounds 10 the thousand. This is
decrease from 1914 when 1h7, 069. 0S2
| OF the larger size were made and none
Of the smaller size.
Tobacco Manufacture
The amount OF tobacco manufacture
| ed In the State during The calendar
| year 1915 Increased over the preceding
year. The figures for 1915 showed A
total Of S.097.4 400 pounds manufactured
on which lax Of $G41 1880 was paid
! while In The preceding year llr' total
| manufacture was 7.95991S pounds, on
which tax of Si4I. If0G4 was paid.
More iOhaCrn was sold in lHii than
I was manufactured in that yea, whi'h
explains the raymrn uG Il - alter lax