The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-08-30
COLLECTION OF
ALASKA TAXES
SHOW INCREASE
Amount for 1943 Fiscal
Year Five Times
that of 1910

| Uncle Sans collections from
Alaska taxpayers increased nearly
one fourth during the last year
Exactly $4,944,67824 in all forms
of internal revenue was collected
iii the Territory during the 1913
fiscal year ending June Both. That
is five times the amount obtained
in the fiscal year 1910
These figures were disclosed today
by Clark Squire, collector of Inter-
nal Revenue for the district of
Washington and Alaska They do
not include Victory tax which for
4 the first three months amounted to
1926 1886 Figures for the second
three months are not available be-
cause reports for that quarter were
not made until after close of the
fiscal year.
For the fiscal year 1912 total
collections for Alaska were $4,0i5,-
/ 53493. The increase for l943 was
, 1913, 1901 VI 1o.1 PSiSCiis. AlAS
increase for the entire country was
TIA percent, total collections hav-
ing jumped from 10 billions to %
billions throughout the nation
For the state of Washington
alone the increase was 1874 percent.
The amount collected there adj
vanced from l26 millions to 287
millions The total for the district
| washington and Alaska for the
last fiscal year was 1921 ,970, 440.31.
Reason for Drop
| Principal reason why Alaska
showed such small percentage
increase is that corporation in
come taxes dropped half a million
dollars-from $730,859 to $227,312,
a decrease Of $50 percent. Washing
ton, however, showed an increase
of Al percent, making a net in
; crease of 1873 percent for the dis
trict. Only one collection district
| showed a net loss Pittsburgh dis
trict in Pennsylvania, for 78 per-
cent.
Alaskas decrease in this kind of
! tax was due to the fact that some
large corporations have ceased OPP
! Grating during the emergency and
others have moved their offices
outside and are filing returns else
where.
Individual income tax collections
here increased 1875 percent from
S2,463,7 o6 to $2,943,572) but not
quite enough to offset the corpor-
alton loss, SO the income tax col
lections showed decline of less
than one percent.
Alaska Is Sixth
From the standpoint of miscel-
laneous internal revenue, including
excess profits, only five districts
had larger percentage increase
than Alaska. These taxes in the
Territory scared from $442,36 to
81, 1882 1877, or 2013 percent. The
increase nationally was 1872 percent.
Employment taxes in Alaska adj
vanced from $378,608 to $4,000
or 1874 percent. The national in
crease was 1874 percent and for
the whole district of Washington
and Alaska 625 percent. These
figures, too, were affected by the
filing elsewhere of returns covering
employment in Alaska.
Percentage increases for Alaska
were heaviest last year and two
years ago. Total collections here
went from $975,799 in 1910 to ST.
$50, $50 in 1871 and to $4,015,534
in 1912, for successive increases of
SO and 159 percent
AdmissiOn-Dues
Taxes on general admissions and
club dues in Alaska jumped from
$60,93c for the 1912 fiscal year to
$l72, Asa for the 1943 fiscal year,
ending June 80
The. increase amounted to SILL
!
524. or 1873 percent. Throughout the
nation the increase was 80 percent
Figures on collection of miscel-
laneO,s taxes in Alaska were re-
ported today by Clark Squire, col
lector of Internal Revenue for the
district of Washington and Alaska,
/ with headquarters in Tacoma
For the fiscal year 1910 the ad-
mission taxes in Alaska was only
$26 OPS In that year the tax on
telephone and telegraph messages
Was $2,04O, but it mounted to $685.
6S2 for the fiscal year just closed. !
The amount collected on safe de-
post, boxes Increased from $6O5 in
l54o to. $2728 in 1913.
The tax on retail sales Of jewelry, |
Efurs and toilet preparations became
effective less than two years ago.