Evening star., 1938-10-06
FEDERAL REVENUE
FROM D. c. JUMPS
% PCT. IN YEAR
National Capital Pays in
$35, ,760,942 as U. S.
Record Is Set.
DISTRICTS PAYMENTS
EXCEED 26 STATES
individuals Supply $4,000, ,69a
and Corporations $7,456,742.
Nearby States Gain.

The District of Columbia paid into
the Federal Treasury more internal
revenue than any one of 26 States
during the fiscal year 1888, ending
June &c. and showed an increase in
such revenue over the year 1887 of
551 per cent.
This big increase in payments to the
Federal till from the District was pro-
portionately more than twice as great
as that for the entire country, which
recorded gain during the same Pc
riod of 21.6 per cent.
Internal revenue from the District
increased from $23 3,048, ,450 in 1887 to
S35, ,760,94 in 1888, while the ma
tional revenue totals jumped during
the same period from s4,653, ,1s5,315 to
S5,658, 765,314.
These collections, according to the
report of Commissioner of Internal
Revenue Guy T. Helvering, were "in
excess of every other year in the his
tory of the Bureau of Internal Reve-
nue."
Security Tax a Factor.
The increase, he explained, sis at.
tributable principally to the estate and
income taxes levied by the 1885, 1895
and 1887 revenue acts and to the pay
roll taxes imposed by the Social Sc
curity and Carriers Taxing Acts,
which for the most part first became
fully productive during the fiscal year
1888
The District of Columbia, although
having only .48 per cent of the tota
population of the country, accordir
to the July, 1887, estimate of the BU-
reau OF the Census, made .63 per cent
OF the total internal revenue pay
ments. The population estimate for
that date here was $1,000. The Dis
trict stood higher than its population
percentage also in payment of in
come taxes, which were rs per cent
of the country's total; higher in pay
roll taxes, which were l09 per cent
of the country's total; but was some
what lower on miscellaneous internal
revenue collections, at .35 per cent CT
the total.
Corporation Tax Jumps.
Corporation income taxes in the
District increased from S5,852149 in
1887 to S7,456,742 in 1888, for a gain
of 27.4 per cent.
Individual income taxes here in
creased from S9,769,223 to S12,O91, $50
during the same period, or 23.8 per
cent.
Total income taxes from this city
were thus brought up from s15,621,-
373 to s19,548,440, for a jump OF
25.1 per cent.
Miscellaneous revenues rose in the
District from s6,O03,637 to S8,112,083,
or 35.1 per cent.
Pay roll taxes here under the Social
Security and Carrier Acts rose from
$l,423,440 to s8,100,418.
Among other taxes paid to the Fed
eral treasury from the District of
Columbia in 1888 were the following:
Estate tax, $5,614,512; gift tax. s272.-
258; total liquor taxes, S473 064; mari
juana tax, s275O; admission taxes,
$274,401; and others.
Two Other Gains Higher.
The District of Columbia stood high
among the States and Territories on
percentage of total increase in inter-
nal revenues. Its 551 per cent in
crease over 1887 was exceeded by only
two collection districts: Alabama, with
60.8, and the fourteenth New York
collection district, with 72.6 per cent.
New York State as a whole, of
course, led the country again with
2l.99 per cent of the total internal
revenue payments, amounting to ST.
244,208,641 in 1888.
The nearby state of Maryland, whose
collection district includes the Ma
tional Capital, showed gain in inter-
nal revenue from $112, 2,628,447 in 1887
to $145,5S6, 500 in 1898, for a gain of
29.3 per cent.
Virginia's internal revenue Jumped
from 6,368, ,480 in 1887 to s2O2, ,4O3, =
845 in 1888, gain of 14.8 per cent.
With 2.o9 per cent of the population,
Virginia through her large tobacco
taxes was enabled to pay 3.58 per cent
OF the total internal revenues of the
country. Virginia's miscellaneous
taxes, including the tobacco levy,
amounted to $163,355,67l in 1893.