The sun., 1919-03-23
S,OO1,244,575 FIRST
INCOME TAX TOTAL
On Quarters Payments 1t Is
Estimated Levy VIII Yield
Four Billions.
ONLY HAWAII Is MISSING
Second New York Is Highest
in Returns and Pittsburg's
Showing Is Poorest.
sp.cinl DespafcA to THr sus.


.wAsHrNcToN, March 22.--More than
$4,000. 100000 will be collected by the
Federal Government this year on income
and excess profits taxes alone the Blu
reau OF Internal Revenue announced
to-day as a result of checking Up the
totals Of the first quarterly payment
OF these taxes which had to be made by
March is. This payment. excluding only
the collection district of Hawaii, which
received an extension of time until April
Is to make Its returns, amounted in all
/, to s1.oo1.944,575.
= II Is estimated that slightly more than
$1,000, 900, 900 will be realized from this
tax. Congress counted on $4,000, 100000
being raised by taxes on incomes and ex-
cess profits. There is some hope. how.
ever, that the Congress estimate may
still prove TO be correct, as the March
payment indicates that the returns OF
corporations, many Of which are rnerely
tentative, will be larger than the cor
porations have shown In their returns
The Internal Revenue Bureau Is as
Stunning that all corporations in their
tentative returns estimated the minimum
amount of tax to which they will be
subjected.
Increase over n Year Ago.
The quarterly payment showed an In
crease Of more than quarter OF billion
dollars over similar returns for a year
ago. Decided increases in tax collections
were shown In all af the sixty-three col
lection dictricts with the exception Of
Minnesota. New Mexico. Philadelphia,
Pittsburg and West Virginia.
W. 1<o- rSoA NV
the Second New York district. which re-
cefved $145.561. 900, the largest of any
district The Third Massachusetts, was
second, with $75.2o3.ooo. The First
Illinois district which includes Chicago,
reported $72.0Ss,o0o on incomplete re-
turns.
Minnesota dropped from $4,000. 900
&c 81, 900 900; Philadelphia fell from
s41. 100000 to s3s.ooo,oOo; West Vir-
ginia dropped back from 100000
last year to $4,000. 900 this year, while
IN the Pittsburg district the greatest loss
was Indicated, n drop from $4,000, 900
to $4,000, 600; IN New Mexico the loss
was less than 100000, the total quar-
terly collections this year amounting to
T, e1,375.o0o.
PittsburR Shows Largest Loss.
Later reports, the bureau insisted. will
show that in all of these districts gains
were actually made over last years col
1ections. An apparent big loss Is ex-
pected from the Pittsburg district, how
ever, as many OF the big steel compa-
MES which paid in that district last year
paid their taxes in New York this year.
The slight apparent loss In New Mexico
IS due to congestion of business &C
cording to officials of the bureau.
At the Internal Revenue Bureau the
report as whole Is taken as an indica-
ton Of prosperity generally throughout
the country. In some places the In
creases in taxes paid were almost start
ling. In the North Dakota and the
Eighth Illinois districts increases over
last years first quarterly collections
amounted to 240 per cent; the Third
iowa district shows a $50 per cent in
crease. and gains of 125 per cent are
seen in the reports from the South Caro-
lima and the Fourth North Carolina
districts.