Evening star., 1934-08-21
D.C.TAXPAYMENTS
DECLINE S627,S85.
Loss in Real Estate CoIIec-
tions Largely RESPONSE
BILE for Decline.


1884 fiscal year dropped $627 1856 %
below 'ast years total, the annual re-
port Of the collector of taxes disclosed
late yesterday. The total tax receipts
for the year ended June 80 were
s33,511,7S1.55.
A decrease of s1,661 ,972.54 in real
estate tax collections was chiefly re-
sponsibe for the net decrease. The
year saw real estate bring to the Dis
trict's Golfers Sl8,l57,8374l. The re-
port disclosed that this year there was
more than three times as much uncol-
lected real estate tax money on the
Districts books as there was a year
ago. When the fiscal year ended
there was a balance of $2,835, ,280.77
in uncollected real estate taxes COM
pared with the balance of 94,347.7O
at the end of 1888.
Intangible personal taxes totaling
$2,033.299.84 was the second largest
item and represented an increase of
t304,9l5.60.
Liquor Tax Is S259, ,924.05.
The alcoholic beverage tax brought
the District $259,924O5. representing
a 100 per cent gain since this is
new tax source. Tangible personal
taxes dropped $l71 ,51394 to bring the
District 1895, ,77712. A total of
$1,639.753.32 was paid in taxes by
public utilities.
The utilities donation to the Dis
trict Golfer was $390,35960 less than
a year ago. The motor vehicle per-
sonal tax totaled $405, ,C0697 or $685.
99S.49 more than a year ago. The
insurance tax payments last year
reached $412,506.67, to give the Dis
trict $l6,593.82 more this year than
from the same source a year ago.
Taxes paid for the sale of 80 beer
brought a return of $117,o38O1, an
increase Of $87,90143 over The fiscal
year ending June 30, 1888 The Spe-
cial reimbursable tax brought in
$296.74, which was $3O997 less than
last year. Miscellaneous collections
made by the District totaled $685.
818.l5, an increase of S653,206.67.
The Districts general fund collec-
tionS Of $27,334, ,23967 was completed
by the addition of S519,085.39 in in
terest on the Districts various hold
ings.
$2,050, ,699.70 Gasoline Tax.
Besides the general fund, however,
total tax collections included a gaso-
line tax of $2,050, ,699 10, less a $4,000
refund. Repayment to appropriations
during the past year equaled $685.
S83.15 to give the District its total of
$33.511, ,78125.
Licenses of various sorts netted the
District $1,235, ISAAC. This total in
cluded: Dog, $43,552.70; elevator oper-
ators, $814; engineers, $315; insur-
ance, $49,073.19; occupational busi-
ness other than insurance, 1882, ,745;
plumbers, $3,014.61; beverage permits,
$171, 1,895.55, and alcoholic beverages
Qiquor hcenses), $633, ,74441.
Court fines brought the District a
total Of S287 7,556.25. OF these, $751;
424.25 were assessed in Police Court,
and the remaining $132 in Juvenile
Court
Other Sources of Income.
Collections realized by the sale OF
produce and various services added
$50, 0,206.46 to the Districts assets. This
total included: Pay patients and the
District Training School, $701; pay
patients at Gallinger Hospital, So, $50;
sale OF garbage grease, $13,411. .48; sale
Of products from the Home for the
Aged and Infirm, $45.72; sale of Dis
trict of Columbia maps, $314.25; mis-
cellaneous city refuge, $22. so; old ma
terial, $2,906.21; sewer disposal from
adjacent territory, $2,885.34; survey
ors, $18,0l630; pay patients at the
tuberculosis Hospital, $567; tuition
paid by nonresident pupils in the
public schools, $4,509.60; commissary
sales at the penal institution, 81 ,691 .54;
commissary sales other than institu-
tionS, $712.35, and excess charges for
auto tags, $3.50.
Rents brought the District $116,-
134.24. OF this sum the wharves pro-
duced $l4,256.23; the fish wharves
and market, Sl7,629,99; the wholesale
produce market, $8,959.59; Western
Market, $5,639.40; Eastern Market.
$4733.10, and Georgetown Market,
$374.10.
Assessment Sums Listed.
Various assessments produced $2o2,-
290, including roadway pavings, S4O,-
151.67; sewers, $94 4,506.99; sidewalks,
8,70607; street extensions, $685.
1851 and $4,993.42.
Thirteen dollars was received by the
conscience fund.
Water rents during the past year
brought $106,91367. As the fiscal
year ended the water fund stood at
Sl,806,8970 Water main assess
ments totaled $7,38863. The water
fund interest during the year was
$5,362.47
The Washington Redemption Fund
reached a total of ,276.44, with
the principal standing at $17O,5749s
and the interest bringing the addi-