Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-16
Increases Shown in Eleven
Classes, With Federal
Sum Lone Exception.
UNPAID LEVY TOTALS
CUT HARD IN REPORT
Tax Deed Auctions and Redemp.
lions Also Improve in ~
Month Period.

past fiscal year. as compared with re.
CeiptS of the 1884 fiscal year was re-
vealed today in the annual report
of Chatham M. Towers, tax collector
Increases were shown In the II
enumerated classes of receipts. with
the exception of the Federal payment
toward expenses of the Capital which
amounted to net S4,539,250 a.
against S5,7O0oO0 in 1884: S7,775,00c
in 1893 and $9,5o0,o00 in 1882.
The amount of unpaid taxes was
slashed heavily and there was Q
considerably better record in the sale
of properties at the annual auction
of tax deeds for non-payment OF
realty taxes. Redemption of prop
critics thus sold also showed a notably
increase, Towers showed.
S34,345,010 Gross Income.
Moneys taken in during the past
year, ending June 30, had a grano
total Of S34,345,0lO.59, or a net in
crease over 1884 of S833,229.34. The
difference between the gross increase
of S1,7S1. 474 in revenues and the net
of 1888 ,229 is represented by O de
crease Of $948, 245.62 in receipts from
trust and special funds and in re-
payment to appropriations The spe.
cial fund item in the 1894 fiscal year
was boosted by grants to the District
for the civil works program, which
passed through the collectors hand
in a bookkeeping system. During
the past fiscal year also there va
a smaller amount Of repayments OF
appropriations.
Collector Towers found there wa
an increase in the past fiscal yea
of s159, 1923 in real estate tax COL
lections in the face of continuation
of the $3.50 realty tax which had been
in operation the previous year.
1884 Showed Decrease.
During the 1884 fiscal year real
estate tax collections showed a de-
crease of S1,661,972. This was &C
counted for by the decreases MADE
in assessments and in the tax rate.
In the 1884 fiscal year there was a
net decrease in collections amounting
to 1927 1856. whereas in the year just
ended there was a net increase OF
1888, 229.34 and a gross increase in
revenue collections of s1,781,47496.
Towers reported increases in other
collections than real estate as follows:
Tangible personal property S55,qO625
Intangible personal taxes la.5O4 81
Public utilities taXes- 351,Q2S1S
Motor vehicle personal taxes 143.052.s7
Beverage taXes--- 533,1g425
insurance taxes ------------ 23'52s.2
Miscellaneous coilection------ 3s3'5455S
Miscellaneous collections to
United States ------------ 17,035.69
At the end of the past fiscal year
the record of the collector showed
there were outstanding in delinquent
realty tax bills total of 1886, 351.66.
At the same time year ago the rec
ord showed there was a total OF
$4,639 ,001 80 unpaid and the differ
ence is enhanced by the fact that the
delinquencies of another year, 1885.
are added to the report on the year
just ended. The delinquencies go back
to the year 1893
For the year 1885 alone the amount
of unpaid realty taxes totals $2,018,-
656.32. For the year 1884 alone, as
reported a year ago, the total then
unpaid was S2e35. 28O.77, this indi-
eating the recovery that has been
staged in the past IL months.
Collector Towers reported the follow
ing summary of collections during the
past fiscal year:
Real estate taxes SlS3l-,n35 "a
! Tangible personal taxes 95i,6S335
Intangible personal taxes 2,052,S00.36
Public utilities taXes------ 1897. $50 10
Motor vehicle personal taxes 54S.05as4
Alcohol beverage taxes 91l,6563l
Insurance taxes---------- 436,034 50
Miscellaneous COLLECTIONS 3.s75,6604s
General fund S2a.Os3. 376.I3
Trust and special funds 3.142,193.31
Gasoline tax 81 062,502.5I
Less refund 11,50000
Miscellaneous collections to
United States-------- 1S.6156O
Repayments to appropria- oo.
tlonS ---------- 49.S13O4
Total collections -S34,345,O 1O59
The total water fund collections, in
Guiding water rents, water main taxes
amounted in the past year to S1,559,-
920.53. The figure for the preceding
year was $l,927 458. The decrease
principally reflects the Is per cent cut
III All JLlC gCdL
there had been but 10 per cent dis
count for prompt payment of bills.
The annual real estate tax sale held
last January brought into the District
treasury" $252,055, which was a
better showing than in the previous
year. Further, Towers said, private
sales held following the tax deed sales
brought to the District an additional
$177,784. Many redemptions were in
cluded in these sales of 1,675 prop
critics.
Towers reported the sale of alcoholic
beverage tax stamps produced 1911.
65631. In all his Office sold more than
10000, 900 stamps in the past fiscal
year.