The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-07-08
s4,5s3,933,24SPAID
In INTERNAL TAXES
Maryland And District OF Columbia
Contributed 500. ss7, 746.96 or
The Amount. Per Capita In COun-
try Is $40.

Washington, July 7.-Maryland
and the District of Columbia con-
tributed $90,8S7,74696 in internal
taxes to the United States Govern
ment in the fiscal year which ended
on June 80. That sum, it is esti-
mated considerably exceeds the total
of all Government expenses within
the State of aMryland and the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Of the amount paid to Uncle Sam
in the 1921 fiscal year in the State
and District, $52,974,6 17.S4 was for
income and profits taxes, and S37,-
913, 1912 was for miscellaneous
taxes. These figures cover the last
two quarterly payments made on ac-
count of the 1919 incomes and the
first. two quarterly payments made
on account of the 1920 incomes.
They include also various bank pay
ments, assessments and adjustm ents
Two Per Cent OF Whole
The share of Maryland and the
District in the total payments made
to the Government is a shade less
than 2 per cent of the total of inter-
nal revenue receipts for the year.
lie IOldl lOI lIIe 6uIlI0 w do
,593,933,2 That figure Incl
IDENTIFY, shows that in internal taxes
alone the per capita payment to the
Federal Government for the 1921
fiscal year was about SAP, SO that
the average family of five paid about
S21O. Of the total receipts So :
2I2,713.489 was derived from in
come and profit taxes.
From New York, of course. cam/
She heaviest payments into the Fed
craI Treasury for internal taxes. That
State paid not quite one-quarter or
the entire sum collected. Its con-
tribution to the running of the Gov
eminent was $1,124, 351, 7O6.21.
That is considerably more than the
total expenses of the Federal Gov
eminent prior to the war, and, OF
course, the figures given take no ac-
count of the indirect taxes paid by
the people of New York ,as the result
of tariff duties, or their share OF in
cidental revenues reaching the Gov
eminent.
Pennsylvania Second
The State contributing the next
largest sum Pennsylvania - paid
appreciably less than one-half as
much as New York. Pennsylvania s
total was $487,711, 269.91. Behind
Pennsylvania came Illinois, with
$387,763, 1882, and then came Ohio,
with $284,532, 1861 These four
! States-New York, Pennsylvania, IL
linOis and Ohio pair as much as
all the other AZ States put together
Following Ohio came Michigan,
with $271, 997,771.3 and running
close TO Michigan was Massachusetts
! with $258,902, 844.09. There was Il
| drop from the Massachusetts total
| of 1881, 3,722.85 from California.
| 1t is a somewhat surprising fact that
! that vast State with he big cities OF
| San Francisco and Los Angeles,
numerous sm0iler cities and immen-
! Sely rich areas of agriculture! coun-
Try, paid only twice as much as
| Maryland an& the DiStricE of Column
! bia.
| The sm' 1T payu On; came from
the ole gill GO" g State Of Ne
vada, one Of t G biggest in area i'll
| the cOun-.r. 1t. total was uug q,
| 169, 094.99. The ntHt smallest pay
! ment came from the neighboring
State of New Mexico, which paid ST.
697 820.83. North Dakota, of Non
Partisan League fame, was the third
smallest in the list of contributions,
its total being $2,934,831.77.