The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1922-09-08
INCOME TAXLESS
S1,14O,191,492.
Collections for 1922 Fall Off,
Compared With Previous
Period, in Every State.
$2,087,946,243 TOTAL PAID
Receipts Far Behind 1920, Although In
cIuding Two of Its Instalments-
New York Pays $52e, ,e71 ,676-
Leads All States.

Washington. A preliminary repor;
of the commissioner of Internal Rev
enue for the fiscal year ended June ~,
1922, signed by G. P. Smith, acting
commissioner, shows that collections
from income and profits taxes in 1921
we're $3,22S 137, ,673.75 and, in 1922,
S2OS7, ,946, ,243.76, decrease of $1,14O,-
191 ,429.99.
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 various
payments OH account of additional as
sessments and amended returns of in
come and profits and taxes for prior
years.
The total internal revenue cOllec-
tons from all sources were $3,197, 7,451,-
993 in 1922 and $4,595, 1857 ,061.95 in
1921, a decrease of $l,397 ,905,97S.95.
In every state there was Il falling Off
in income and profits tax payments in
1920 as compared with 1921, while the
decrease from 1920 collections was eX-
tremely heavy The District of Co
lumbia is the only political unit in the
United States which paid more income
and profit taxes in 1929 than in 1921.
1t paid even more than in 1920. In
1921 it's payments were $S054,9l4 and
in 1922 they were S9,713,1 1856, an in
crease of q per cent.
New York States payments of in
come and profits taxes for 1922 up to
date were $529,971, $40. In 1921 the
payments were $S14,736,70S, or $2S4,-
765,032 more than in 1922, the percent
age Of decrease being 80. The drop in
New York's 1922 payments is empha-
sized by comparison with the payments
in that state in 1920, when $1,1O9, ,SO2,-
44S was collected.
The heaviest percentage of loss in
income and profits taxes in 1922 was in
South Carolina, with q. reduction of 63
per cent. In 1921 the collections in that
state were $26,032, ,367, while in 1922
they dropped to $9,69S,064. No state
paid as much to the government in
income and profits taxes as New York.
Other states which made heavy pay
ments in 1922 were:
California 800, 160,930, loss 20 per
cent from 1921; Illinois $179,411 ,220,
loss 81 per cent; Massachusetts $780,
O72,416, loss 80 per cent; Michigan
$112,1S1, $50, loss 80 per cent; Ohio
SIPS, S,7S9,675, loss 81 per cent; Pennsyl-
vania $245, 7S4, $3.50, loss 80 per cent.
New Jersey paid $67, ,735 5,036, a de-
crease of 40 per cent; Delaware $685.
$40, decrease 60 per cent; Maryland
$29, 1856, 500, decrease "a per cent, and
Rhode Island $19,O99,335, decrease 45
per cent.
The receipts from other sources of
revenue show a heavy Increase in
cigarette smoking and fairly large de-
creases in the use Of cigars and smOk-
ing and chewing tobacco. In 1913 the
number of cigarettes on which taxes
were paid was 14,294, $685. Al. There
has been an increase every year since
then. In 1916 the number of cigarettes
taxed was 21OS7, ,757,O7S; in 1917,
3O,529, 1913, ,53S; in 1919 3S, 104, ,73S,310,
and in 1920 5O,44S, ,541 $3.50. The number
dropped to 45,O6o,3 ,323,OO4 IN 1871, Dut
in 1922 taxes were paid on 50,05S,2o
357.
In 1917 the number Of cigars on
which taxes were paid was 9,216,901,-
113. In 1922 the number was 1926,
S57,S13. Taxable smoking and chewing
tobacco amounted to 445, 1884, ,206
pounds in 1917, and fell to 36S,563,36S
pounds in 1922.
Internal revenue receipts in New
York and other Eastern cities in 1922
were as follows:
First New York District (Brooklyn)
$50, ,79O,36S, decrease of q per cent ;
Second New York District (ManhaI-
tam. $5S7 Az, 800, decrease 80 per cent.
Fourteenth District (Albany), $47,-
O49,OO4, decrease 80 per cent.
Twenty-first District (Syracuse),
$24,616,757, decrease 33 per cent.
Twenty y-eighth (Buffalo), $5O,774, ,201,
decrease % per cent.