The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-27
NATIONS TAX BILL FOR FISCAL YEAR
 OVER , BILLIONS
Tax Paid During Last F Months Exceed All Esti- mates By S300,0O0,0O0,
 Report Shows
By Associated Press

Washington, July 26.-The nations greatest tax bill, $40 STA, was col lected during the fiscal year ending June 3o
 Official figures tonight showed that the tax paid in the last twelve months had exceeded all estimates, congressional and official, by approximately sSOo, ,0o0,ooo, and was nearly 75 per cent larger than the total of taxes paid in either of the war years of 1918 or 1919. The 1918 tax levy yielded $3,6s4, ,61ssss and the taxes in 1913 aggregated ss,sss, ,95o612.
 Collection of this record-breaking as- sessment cost the government s2,75o,ooo or about 55 cents for each s1o0.
 Revenues derived from income and ex- cess profits taxes alone were $3,9i45 7S7 for the twelve months, which is nearly s1,250, 0o0 larger than collections made from the same sources in either of the last two years. An increase for this year also was shown in the receipts from miscellaneous taxes, which brought in l,465, 729, ,1S6 These taxes totaled s14s,- 9il,sO9 and sS55, ,7oO for 1919 and 1918. respectively.
 New York state continued to maintain it's record of leading the nation as a taxpayer. It's tax burden amounted to sl,4l6,9 PIC. Of this amount s1, 135, ,o97, 4S came from the financial heart of Amer ica--the Wall Street district.
 The Chicago district paid all but s4O.- 5l5,75S of the total Illinois taxes of s442,- 2Sa,070. Next following Illinois was Ohio, With taxes of $S72, ,S1e,54S, and Massachu- setts with s35o, ,s2s, ,233
 North and South Dakota, both in one collection district were called upon to pay only S9,41, ,6S3 from their combined areas and, with the exception of the Philippine Islands, were at the foot of the list.
 COLLECTION BY STATES
 Total collections by states or by groups of states in cases where more than one state comprises a district were an- nounced as follows:
 Alabama and Mississippi, s29, ,540, ,2s5; {; Arkansas, s12. .2s3,S77; California and oming. $se.56s.4ss; Connecticut and Rhode Island, sl5l, ,S1S,761; Florida, sl5. 6,oaS Georgia. s42665.7e2; Hawaii, Sl.a27545; Illinois. SAP, ,2Ss,07o; Indiana, s73,6oS.766; Iowa, s3e,es,37s; Kansas. s4o.6so, 194; Ken lucky, s4779s,022; Louisiana, $50,9S4, 32S Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia, s120, ,752, ,457; Massachusetts, S350, ,92S, ,233; Michigan. $83,$74S GAS.
 Minnesota, S76, ,997, ,4o1; Missouri, $l4S,- 609,325; Montana, Idaho and Utah. 3D. 757,741; Nebraska, $24.211.475 New Hamp- shire, Maine and Vermont, s41,596, 65l l; New Jersey, s153, ,55s 234; New Mexico and Arizona, $S,396,2S3; New York, s1,46, 93s,- = 276; North Carolina, $169, ,2O6.007; North and South Dakota, $9.5A,6 ,6S3; Ohio, $S72.- s1s,54S; Oklahoma, $25, ,595, ,0S4.
 Oregon. s27, ,264, ,l23; Pennsylvania, $555,- 7a5,0S6; South Carolina, $26,653541; Ten nessee, $s6, 13S, 127; Texas, s1o3004.36s; Vir- gnia, s69,S12,3 ,34s; Washington and Alaska, S42,179,655; West Virginia, Ss3S32, 3S3; Wis consn, s92 923, 1852; Philippine Islands, $l,425, AIS; postoffice sales of internal rev enue stamps (eleven months). s22,5Ss,55L