The New York herald., 1921-11-28
Incomes and Profits Pay
72y,UO0,OOU nesc BEFORE
June 30 Last.
COLLECTION COST UP
Administration Now Takes
81 Cents OH Each 500
/, Instead Of IS.
TOTAL is 4,595, 600, 765
Liquor and Tobacco Excuses De-
cline: Leyies OH Estates
Show Increase.
TOTAL is S4,5s5, 900, 765

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-Tax receipts
or the Government during the fiscal
Year 1921 decreased nearly billion
dollars as compared with the previous
year, and the cost Of collection in
creased 80 cents for each 800, says
the annual report of the Bureau of
Internal Revenue made public tonight
by Commissioner Blair.
Collections by the bureau in the last
fiscal year totalled s4.595. 900. 765,
against s5,4o7 5SO,25 for. the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1920. decrease Of
ssI2,579, ,4s0, or 15 per cent
The cost of administering the inter-
nal revenue laws for the year, the
report said, was s40,2O3.71s, or 81. cents
for each 500 collected, compared with
So cents for the preceding year. Ia
cluded in the expenditures was $685.
4O7 for the administration of the pro-
hbition and narcotic laws and $3.50, 900
for the enforcement of the child labor
tax law which, deducted from the total,
leaves $33,174, 800. or an equivalent OF
NtiiLo lOi Cs1Sl FIVV AL loACo WI
lected.
OF the total taxes collected in the
last year income and profits taxes ag-
gregated s3.22s, ,137,673. compared with
s3.95S, ,oS6,003 in 1920. Miscellaneous
collections totalled sl,3s6, ,sGs,os1.
against s1,45o,s44,24s in isaot, !
Admissions show Increase.
~ y 5 wi B. 4 - I . = fs.H
The principal decreases in these taxes
were: On alcoholic liquors. s$57. .247,T20; /;
tobacco manufactures. s40.sSs, $50 ex-
?ise taxes, s3S.53s,1s1; corporation cap
'tal stocks. s11.4s4.767, and stamp
axes. s1l.s79.s13.
These decreases were materially off
BY increases on estate tax, s50,407,-
Z: transportation and telegraph, Sl2,-
1925, and admission and dues, s13,-
1898.
Collections under the penalty pro-
ons of the national prohibition act
the year totailed S2,152,3S7. Receipts
on distilled spirits, including wines,
sgregatod SS2.59s.065 in 1921. COM
ared with s97.905,27 in 1920. Fer
,ented liquors produced $25,S65. against
,I965.s7
IN the fiscal year 1921 there were
reduced from materials other than fruit
Ss365.65s taxable gallons OF distilled
spirits a decrease of 13, ,250,13s gallons
FROM 1920, while "a, 993,l gallons were
-nnoved from bond, an increase of
s1J. 2is gallons over 1920.
i,iuidY chntaluing more than one-half
of Ole per cent. Of alcohol produced at
treweries and dealcoholizing plants in
the year aggregated 193H46.T63 gallons,
compared with 2S6.169,SS0 in the pre-
Sious wear The quantity Of cereal bev-
fai~ fhln onp-half
Of one per cent OF alcohol produced dur
In. the year aggregated 2S5,s25,s30 gal
Iona Production OF wine and cordials
for the year amounted to 1e,551,5s5 gal
Jo1s and at the end of the year there
vcrs 27.604,S96 gallons in bond, as COM
pared with 11,67T,37o gallons on June 80,
1890.
wants More Tax Districts.
lncrca~e in the number of tax COL
lection districts from 81 TO 14 was
re-omnended re by Commissioner Blair as
y means Of increasing the efficiency of
The Internal Revenue service. During
trc psst ten years he declared. tho
work of the Revenue Bureau has been
entirely transformed and the number of
.etpayers fling returns has increased
CON, apnroxi,,,a telv Cos, 900 TO n total OF
p.e0O. 900 annually.
practically all OF the 100000 tax
oa,ers," he said, dealt with collectors
of Internal revenue but once each year,
while under present laws the ronthly re-
turns required OF sales tax payers. to-
sether with the quarterly payment fea-
,ure provided for income taxpayers. me-
csssitate 100000 separate transac-
tions annually"
Mr.. Blair also called attention TO the
danger Of loss by FIRE OF several hun
drad thousand income tax returns and
other irreplaceabie papers representing
hundreds OF millions OF dollars In in
,reased assessments because OF the finn
sv character OF the buildings in which
various units of the bureau are To-
Gated.