Show INCREASE SHOW IN U S TB TAX BILL government RECEIPTS BILLION AND HALF DOLLARS LAST YEAR in first full year of prohibition era th there era was net reduction of in taxes on distilled and fermented liquors washington lax bill tor for lie fislid year ending june jiing 30 amounted to approximately it tolli billion loik and a half dollars inore than avas into 11 ato tile federal treasury in tile llo previous ti olous months the were contained in the arellin inary report of tile commissioner of internal lit revenue re made public october 10 it s hows that tha t front f loin income and I 1 profits taxes tile government re ic vetoed approximately three fourths or of till nil its revenue in those these two items c was an increase Inci ease of over oe flie fawal year of 1119 1019 receipts for the two years beius being i 1020 1010 from lous sources of nils imis coll cel laneous antous taxation the levy produced oil an increase over tile the year of internal revenue receipts for sill nil stats and territories wits was in the first alist full year of the tion era there was a net reduction of in taxes on distilled and fermented liquors the report shows front from distilled spirits the government received in the last fiscal year while the taxes front from the samo same source burce in 1010 lot were taxes on fermented liquors for the last fleat fl cal year ear aggregated and for tile tho fiscal year of 1010 1019 1 the transportation tax which had been estimated to produce about pam annually reached for lie last fiscal year sear this included udal taxes on fi freight eight passenger express telephone and telegraph and transfer of oil by pipe line excise and special taxes including the luxury tax brought about into the treasury one of the chief items in this list was tile the tux tax on oil motor cars winch which netted taxes on jewelry cosmetics and other so called luxuries produced another the special corporation tax tai on the value of its stock yielded the 1010 consumption of cigars was and in the alie fiscal year of I 1 1020 01 0 ranged slightly above the report showed that taxes had been paid on cigarettes in 1018 1918 in 1010 1910 and in it the fiscal year sear ended juno 30 commissioner williams reported ported le the years 1 cars expenditures of tile the bureau of internal revenue at tills this included an expenditure of for enforcement of prohibition tor for enforcement onfri cement of the narcotic laws and used in enforcing the laws against child labor the actual cost of tny tax collection mr mi will lains films estimated nt at 50 cents on each collected till nn expenditure of abou 1 per cent more than in 1010 1 19 |