Evening star., 1941-08-18
District Leads
"A States in
Income Taxes
Collections in D. G.
Total $39, 367,73l
For Year

The District of Columbia paid
more internal revenue taxes than
each of 21 States and more income
taxes than each of "A States during
the fiscal year which ended last
June 30, Commissioner of Internal
Revenue Guy T. Helvering dis
closed today in making public COM
pilations of final data on internal
revenue collections for the year.
The total collections in the Dis
trict-S39, 1867, ,731 .12-represented SO
per cent of the total received from
the States and Territories. The
figure also represents an increase Of
379 per cent over collections in
the District for the 1910 fiscal year,
the report showed.
Taxes collected from all the States
and territories reached a new all
time high mark of s7,370. .l08,377.
This figure included s3,462, ,028, 1863
In income taxes, S2,982, ,223, SAB in
miscellaneous internal revenue coll
lections and 1925 1856, ,460 in employ
ment taxes.
With its 663 900 residents compris-
ing only 0.5 per cent of the total pop
ulation of the country, the District
contributed more in internal reve-
nues than Alabama, Arizona, Ar
kansas, Idaho. Iowa, Kansas, Maine,
Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Ne
vada, New Hampshire, New Mexico,
North Dakota, Oregon, South Caro-
lima, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont.
West Virginia and Wyoming. Eleven
of these States have smaller popu-
lations than the District.
Have Greater Population.
In the income tax category the
District returned more revenue than
Colorado, Kentucky and Oklahoma,
in addition to the 81 States which
it exceeded in total internal reve-
nue. payments. The population Of
each of these three additional States
is much greater than that of the
District.
Maryland paid s14O, ,766, ,423.35 into
the internal revenue Golfers, and
Virginia paid s284,947 ,325.87. Vr-
ginia's proportion of the total COLI
lections was 3.87 per cent, while
Marylands share was 191 per cent.
Corporation Taxes Increase.
Collections in Maryland repre-
sented an increase of 36.1 per cent
over the preceding fiscal year, willis
Virginia's payments were up 26.8 per
cent.
In the income tax category, which
includes excess profits taxes, the
District contributed $23,800,8 ,81219,
or SO per cent of the total returns
on income levies. Miscellaneous in
ternal revenue collections here
amounted to s6,566, ,72299, or %
per cent Of the total in this category.
In employment taxes, including car.
riers levies, the District paid So
000, 1854, which was .97 per cent
of the total received from this
group Of taxes.
Revenues from corporation taxes
in the District increased from S.
361,715.97 to s8,125,892.70, for a
gain of 27.7 per cent over the 1910
. fiscal year.
The biggest increase locally, how
ever, was in the collections on in
. dividual income tax returns. This
: figure jumped from s9,a07, ,215.56
: in the 1910 fiscal year to $685.
4447O in the 1941 fiscal year. a gain
of 1913 per cent.
| The total income tax collections
: from residents and corporations in
the District was S23, ,481 1897 40, which
| represents an increase of Al per
/ cent over the preceding fiscal year,
, In the miscellaneous internal
revenue category, collections here
were 55.3 per cent above the 1910
, figure, while local revenues from
/ the employment and carriers taxes
, were up only TT per cent.