New-York tribune., 1921-11-28

| Drop in 1921
Tax Receipts
Report Shows 81 Cents Is
Spent 10 Collect Each
500, Which rs 50 Gents
More Than Last Year
Rum Loss S57,2f7,72O
Revenue Is 50. 595. 600. 765.
With Gain in Estate and
| Transportation Levie

81 WASHINGTON, Nov a7.-Tax re-
feipts of the government in the fiscal
kear 1921 decreased approximately ST.
200, 100000 as compared with the pre-
kious year. while the, cost Of collection
fncreased 80 cents for each $lo0, ac-
fording to the annual report of the
Bureau of Internal Revenue made pub
Pic tonight by Commissioner Blair.
Eollections by the bureau for the last
kscal year amounted to s4.so5. 900. .T65.
against So .407 5S0.251 for the fiscal wear
knded June so, 1920 a decrease of
Ssl2.b79,4S6. or Is per cent.
i The cost OF administering the inter
pal revenue laws for the year. the re-
port SAID, was SA0203,71G, or 81 cents
or each S10o collected, compared with
rs cents for the preceding year. How
over, the report added. incluAed in the
Expenditures was s6.S9e .4o7 for the aa-
Rninistrntion Of the prohibition and
narcotic laws and SIS00s0 for the en-
Forcement of the child labor tax law,
(which deducted from the total. leaves
ES3,174.309. or an equivalent of To cents
Tor each S1o0 in taxes collected.
i Income Tax Declines
| OF the total taxes collected in the
asst year income and profits taxes ag-
Eregated S322S. 1877 .eT3, compared with
k3,956.sS6,o03 in 1920, and miscelane-
ous collections totaled $la66 S6s ,o91.
against S1.450,64424S in 1926.
The principal decrease In these taxes
Avere On alcoholic lic1ors, SS7.247.T2O; !;
fobacco manufacturers, $40 $50 ,969; ex-
tlsc CGAes. S3o.o5N-52f; corporation
fapital stocks. sl1,494,767, and stamp
taxes, S11 ,S79,S13.
/ These decreases, the report said.
fwere materially Offset by increases in
itaxes on estates, $50, ,s07 S97; Transport
ltation and telegraph, S12,16432S, and
Submissions and dues, S13,972,09S.
Collections under the penalty pro-
visions of the national prohibition act
rn the year totaled S2,152,3S7: receipts
Ifrom distilled spirits. including wines,
lin 1921. aggregated SS2.59S .065, COM
pared with s97seo5.275 in 1920, while
ifermented liquors produced S25,36S,
against Sal, ,965.S7.
{ In the fiscal year 1921 there Were
Eproduced from materials other than
Fruit, S6,S65,65S taxable gallons of dis
TITLED spirits, a decrease Of 13,250I33
Egallons from 1920, while 34993,154 gal
Slons were removed from bond. an in
screase Of 6,772,245 gallons over 1920.
193,146,763 Gallons
I Liquids containing more than one-half
Iof per cent of alcohol produced at
lhreweries and dealcoholizing plants in
1.-THE year aggregated 1913, AS 1853 gall
Hons, compared with 2S6, 1863 $50 in the
fprevious year. while the quantity of
cereal beverages containing less than
one-half of / per cent of alcohol pro-
duced In the year aggregated 2S5, 5,825,-
1880 gallons. Production of wine and
Icordials for the year amounted to 49,
1861 ,595 gaIIonss and at the end of the
Iyear there were 27,604 800 gallons in
Ibond, as compared with 17,677,370 gal
Hons on June 80 1920.
Increase in the number of tax col
Elections districts from sixty-four to
lseventy-four was recommended by
lCommi issiCner Blair as a means of in
Iereasing the efficiency of the internal
revenue service. During the last ten
lyears he declared the work of th.
revenue bureau has been entirely
transformed and the number of tax
Ipayers filing returns annually has in
creased from approximately 100000 to
la total of 5000 coo.
practically all of the coo 900 tax
lpayers," he said, @dealt with collectors
Iof internal revenue but once each
lyear. while under present laws the
I'm monthly returns required of sales tax
payers, together with the quarterly
payment feature provided fo.r in income
necessitate 100000 sep
larate transactions annually"
Mr.. Blair called attention to the
danger of loss by fire of several hun
Idred thousand income tax returns and
lother irreplaceable papers represents
ling hundreds of millions of dollars
lin increased assessments because of
Ithe flimsy character of the buildings in
which various units Of the bureau are
(1neaked