New Britain herald., 1922-08-28
INCOME TAX SHOWS
 GREAT FALLING OFF
More Than Billion Decline From
 Previous Year

Washlngton, Aug. zs,-A prellm- mary report of the commissioner oi internal revenue for the fiscal year ended June 30. 1922. signed by c. P smith, acting commissioner, shows that collections from income and profits taxes in 1921 were $S.22S,137,- 67S.75 and in 1922 $2,oS7.946,243.76 decrease of s1,140,19l,42999.
 The receipts for 1922 include pay ments of the third and fourth install ments of the 1920 taxes and the first and second instalments of the 1921 taxes. There are included also vari- ous payments on account of additional assessments and amended returns of income and profits taxes for prior years.
 The total internal revenue collec- tons from all sources were $3197,- 451,0S in 1922 and s4,595,3 ,06l.95 in 1921, a decrease of s1,397,90 97S.95.
 Falls or Everywhere.
 In every state there was a falling off in income and profits tax pay ments in 1922, as compared with 1921, while the decrease from 1920 collections was extremely heavy. The District of Columbia Is the only po- litical unit in the United States which paid more income and profits taxes in 1922 than in 1921. It paid even more than in 1920. In 1921 its pay ments were ss,054,s14 and in 1922 they were s9,713,1s6, an increase of 21 percent
 New York states payments of in come and profits taxes for 1922 up to date were $529,971,676. In 1921 the payments were sS14,736,70s, or s2S4,- 765.oS2 more than in 1922, the per centage of decrease being 35. The drop in New York's 1922 payments is emphasized by comparison with the payments in that state in 1920, when s1,109,So2,44S was collected.
 Heaviest Losses
 The heaviest percentage of loss in income and profits taxes in 1922 was in South Carolina. with a reduction of 63 per cent. In 1921 the collections In that state were $26,032.367. while in 1922 they dropped to $9,69S, S,o64 No state paid as much to the govern ment in income and profits taxes as New York Other states which made heavy payments in 1922 were:
 California, s92,16o,93O loss 29 per cent. from 1921; Illinois. s179,411,- ooo, loss 31 per cent; Massachusetts, s130,072,416, loss 3s per cent. Michi- gan, s112,1S1,55o loss 39 per cent. Ohio, s12S,7S9,675. loss 37 per cent; Pennsylvania, s245,7S4,639. loss 30I per cent
 New Jersey paid ss7,735,o36, a de- crease of 45 per cent; Delaware s3,- 9S6,540, decrease SO per cent; Mary land s29,856,506, decrease 34 per cent. and Rhode Island, s19,o99,335, de- crease 45 per cent
 The receipts from other sources of revenue show heavy increase In cigarette smoking and fairly large de- ,reases in the use of cigars and smok ng and chewing tobacco. In 1913 the number of cigarettes on which taxes were paid was 14,294, S95,471. There las been an increase every year since | hen. In 1916 the number of cigar ties taxed was 21, 1,oS7,757,o7S In 1917 0,529,193,53S in 1919, 3s,1o4,738,31o nd in 1920. 50,448,541,6S9. The num- ger dropped to ,oo4 in 1921 ,ut in 1922 taxes were paid on 5o, I5S,250,357.
 In 1917 the number of cigars on which taxes were paid was 9,216,901,- IS. In 1922 the number was 7,266,- | 57,s13 Taxable smoking and chew ng tobacco amounted to 445.763,206 | bounds in 1917, and fell to 368,563,36S ,ounds in 1922.
 Conn. Reports
 International receipts in New York nd other Eastern cities In 1922 were s follows:
 First New York district (Brooklyn) 6a,79O,36S, decrease of 27 per cent; econd New York District (Manhat- an) s5S7,442,359, decrease 32 per ent.
 Fourteenth District (Albany) s47,- 49.oo4, decrease of 32 per cent
 Twenty-f1rst District (Syracuse) 24,616,757, decrease 32 per cent.
 Twenty-eight (Buffalo) s50,774,201, ecrease % per cent. Connecticut (Hartford) s50,224,645, ecrease 30 per cent.
 Massachusetts (Boston) S1S2,102,- 05, decrease 35 per cent.
 Fifth New Jersey (Newark) sS5,- 05,105, decrease 25 per cent.
 First Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) 1Sa, ,O59.715. decrease 29 per cent. First New Jersey (Camden) s21,- 44,233. decrease 26 per cent.
 Rhode Island (Providence) s35,-