Evening star., 1934-09-11
INTERNAL REVENUE
RECEIPTS IN CITY
GAIN g PER CENT
Grand Total for District Is
$11,260, ,0O0-Big In
crease in Maryland.
OVER TWO BILLION PAID
BY ENTIRE COUNTRY
Taxes on Malt Liquors Here Hit
$525, ,000-Farm Products
Turn In $4,000.

An increase of more than % per
cent in internal revenue receipts in
the District of Columbia in the fiscal
year 1884 as compared with 1888 was
reported today by the Internal Rev.
enue Bureau.
Total receipts jumped from $8,464,-
1886 in 1893 to $10,942, ,66242 in
1884. This is exclusive of the new
agricultural adjustment taxes, which
were 1926, 1884, making the grand
total here $11,269,097.87 The beer
tax here was more than half a mil
lion dollars.
Maryland showed gain of more
than Sc per cent, while Virginia
showed a gain of IL per cent.
Maryland figures rose from s23,-
101,925.70 to $36,015,13188, exclusive
Of agricultural adjustment taxes,
which amounted to $3,540,652.27.
This brought the total 1884 returns
up to $39, ,984.14.
Increase in Virginia.
Virginia, exclusive of agricultural
adjustment taxes, increased its re-
ceipts from $103, ,798 ,963.93 to $116,-
674,856.64. In 1884 agricultural ad-
juStment taxes there were $5,987,-
1868, bringing the total to $122,-
662, ,243.62.
For the country as a whole, inter-
nal revenue receipts, exclusive of agri-
cultural adjustment taxes, jumped
from $1,619,839, ,224.30 to $2,3O0,8l6,-
308.88, gain of ~ per cent. Adding
the agricultural adjustment taxes of
S371, ,422, ,885.64, the grand total
mounted to $2,672, ,239, ,19452.
In the District, the internal reve-
nue. returns for 1884 included a gain
of per cent in income taxes, from
$6,272, ,88096 to $6,725,048.57.
Miscellaneous taxes here showed a
jump of 90 per cent, from $2,191,-
227.60 to $4,217,613.85.
Income taxes in 1884 here included
corporation taxes of $2,26O, ,22O SO and
individual income taxes of $4,464,-
827.88.
Stock and Dividends.
Listed under the national industrial
recovery act, taxes paid here in 1894
were shown as follows: Excess profits,
$8,66o.78; capital stock, $500 ,592.O
dividends, $133, ,406.64. Estate taxes
paid here in 1884 were $1,434,17s.S9,
and gift taxes, $14,110.64.
OF special interest this year were
the taxes paid on liquor. Excise taxes
on domestic distilled spirits, at s1.10
per proof gallon, totaled $6,777.87,
and at 50 per proof gallon, $9,234. 80.
The floor tax on distilled spirits, at 90
cents per proof gallon, amounted to
$16,064.60, and the amount realized
from container or bottle strip stamps.
at u of cent each, was S115.17.
Wholesale liquor dealers here, at
500 each, paid into the Treasury
$2,l46.04; retail liquor dealers, at SOS
each, paid $1e,80424, and the total
taxes realized from distilled spirits
were listed at 54,142.82. The odd
amounts are accounted for by the
fact the act was in effect less than one
year.
The total tax on wines here
amounted to $29737.
The beer tax of SIS per barrel
turned into the Federal Treasury from
this city total of $485, ,73125, and
there was realized on the special tax
on the two breweries here a total of
$4,000.
Wholesale dealers in fermented
malt liquors paid at the rate of $50
each into the Federal Treasury a total
OF $4,454.96, and the retail dealers in
fermented malt liquors, at $40 each
a year, paid $33,166.75.
The total Federal tax from excise
and special taxes on fermented malt
liquors in the District of Columbia
was s525, ,35296.
Other taxes from the District In
1884 included the following:
Agricultural adjustment taxes
wheat, $169, ,205.06; cotton, s88,977.9
tobacco, $12,873.39; field corn, So
S89.76; hogs, $4,898.42; paper and jute
fabrics, $46, 6,79o.89; sugar, none; total
agricultural adjustment taxes, $685.
635.44.
Admissions, $265 1866.
Club dues and initiation fees, 10 per
cent, s55,884.83.