The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-12-10
.KENTUCKYPAYS
MORE TAXES THAN
ANY OTHER STATE
Gives Twice The Revenue.
Eight States Pay More On
Tobacco Than Ky.

Washington, Dec Sat the end OF
the last fiscal year, June 30, 1919, more
than half of the total amount of tax
able whisky remaining in distilleries
and bonded warehouses of the United
States was in Kentucky, it is shown
by the annual report OF Daniel Roper.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
The report shows that the total a
mount of taxable whisky at that time
was 63,942,931 gallons, while 3s,sI1,-
160 gallons were in Kentucky distill-
cries and bonded warehouses.
Commissioner Roper's report furth-
err shows that more than one-fourth OF
Internal Revenue Bureau taxes on dis
titled spirits and alcoholic beverages for
the fiscal year, which amounted to
$4ss,059, s54.47. was paid by distillers
of Kentucky.
Taxes paid in Kentucky amounted to
$137, S23, $50 So, or more than twice as
much as was paid by any other State.
Pennsylvania paid the second largest
amount, $67, 155, 1865. New York was
third.
Tobacco Big Revenue Producer.
Tobacco has become one of the
great sources of revenue for the Gov
eminent" the report states Total re-
ceipts from all tobacco taxes were
5000, 003, 091. "a, an increase OF $49,s14,-
431.94 or 81 s per cent over the pre-
ceding year. Receipts from Kentucky
amounted to $G,102, 1901 Eight Stat
es paid more money into the Treasury
on tobacco than Kentucky North Car
olina paid the largest amount, $67,-
$50, 190.35, New York was second, with
$35, 603, 1893 95.
The report shows that total inter-
nal revenue receipts from Kentucky
amounted to $17s, 1927, 1886, of which
$156, S26,2S9. as was for miscellaneous
taxes and $22, 1O1 ,29630 was for in
come and profit tax The increase in
Kentucky receipts from income and
profits tax over the proceeding fiscal
year was $1,154, 34749. Total internal
revenue receipts from the entire ma
ton amounted to $3.50, 15O,07s56.
Production of Spirits.
The report shows that 3,957,654
gallons of distilled spirits were pro-
duced in Kentucky during the last
fiscal year, or only little more than
one-fourth the amount produced dur
ing the fiscal year of 1918. Total pro-
duction of distilled spirits in the Unit
ed States was 100, 778, 540.6 gallons, as
compared with 1883, 1891 gallons
produced during the fiscal year 1918
and 2s6,Os5,46 3 gallons during the
fiscal year 1917.
In speaking of the rapid increase in
the number of cigarettes manufacture
ed compared with the number of Gig
ars, the report says:
I'm 1910 for the first time, the num-
Der of cigarettes manufactured was
greater than the number of cigars
manufactured the approximate num-
Der being s,50O,000,00 cigarettes and
5000, 100000 cigars. Since that time
the number of cigarettes has increased
very rapidly, while that of cigars has
shown no material change. In the
last year the number of cigarettes was
AZ, 500, 900, 900, while that of cigars was
approximately s,O00,O00,000 as in 1910.
Last year, for the first time, the num-
Der of pounds of leaf entering into
the manufacture of cigarettes totaled
more than the number of pounds of
leaf entering into the manufacture of
cigars, the two numbers being approx
imately 177,0O0.000 pounds and 1872
100000 pounds, respectively.