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Show PLAN REDUCED TAX GH OLEOifiGII Commissioner Would Have Government Take Over Narcotic Drugs. WASHINGTON'. Pe 1. Kedm-tlun ot the lrt cents a pomul tax on rolored oleomargarine, both as a war measure to increase the production of food fats and as a means of actually yielding more acrrega 1 e re v e nu e , was ra'nnimcnriej in the annual report of the internal revenue bureau issued today over the name of "VY". IT. Osborn, who re.ently lias been succeeded as commissioner by Paniel C. Roper. Another recommendation prompted by war conditions was that Uie government govern-ment should assume control, manufacture and use of narcotio drurs needed o badly for Red Cross work. The report cited ihr Sf'S.OOO in ternal revenue, receipts for the fiscal e.:ir ending: last Juno Xrt as '"the larceot in the Mstory of the bureau." but pointed out that even that record would be brcken by the estimaiei receipts for the current year under the new war tax law of 53.400.000,000. The greatest source of taxat ion was distilled liauora. the production pro-duction of which showed a marked increase in-crease despite tho extension of prohibition territory. The principal collections last year were as follows: Distilled spirits, SlST.C. S.0O0; fermented liquors, ??1.04.0,.'i'; Individual income tax, SlSO.K'.i''1": corporation income tax, $79.r.:3,u-0 : manufacture 1 tobacco, $10,-S3..00i: $10,-S3..00i: munition manufacturers' tix. now discontinued, 527.563,000; miscellaneous special taxes, 5,3,71,000. New York led the states in amount of tax collections with ji So. 000, 00; Illinois was second, with S .00..'j0; Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania third, with Sssl.OOO.QOO : Ohio fourth, with S51. fl.,0u., and Kentucky fifth, with S47.000.Oc0. The smallest collections col-lections came from Nevada. Wyoming. North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho and New Mexico, in the order iven. Rased on receipts in July. August and September, this year, revenue for the year ending- next June 30 is estimated at S3.400.000.OfK). classified as follows: Excess Ex-cess profits, Sl.fi - .000.000; incomes. J1.01.O00.h00. inc. tiding 566,000,0.0 from individuals and 553?. 000, 00 from corporations; corpora-tions; other new war taxes. 5 -7.000.0"0, and ordinary collections from old sources, fuch as liquor and tobacco. 5445. v.,u00. For the year ending- June 30. 1919. revenue reve-nue receipts under the present law are estimated at $3,423,000,000 |