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Show INCREASE SHOWN If iUU BILL GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS BILLION AND HALF DOLLARS MORE THAN LAST YEAR. In First Full Year of Prohibition Era There Was Net Reduction of $343,- 000,000 in Taxes on Distilled and Fermented Liquors. Washington. America's tax bill for the fiscal year ending June 30 amounted amount-ed to $5,-10S,075,4GS, approximately a billion and a half dollars more than was paid into the federal treasury in the previous twelve months. The figures were contained in the preliminary prelim-inary report of the commissioner of internal revenue, made public October Octo-ber 10. It shows that from income and profits taxes the government received re-ceived approximately three-fourths of all its revenue. In these two items there was an increase of $1,356,000,000 over the fiscal year of 1919, receipts for the two years being: 1920, $3,957,-701,000; $3,957,-701,000; 1919, $2,000,000,000. From multifarious sources of "mis- cellaneous" taxation the levy produced $1,450,374,000, an increase over the previous year of $201,000,000. Internal revenue receipts for all states and territories was $5,408,075,-468. $5,408,075,-468. In the first full year of the prohibition prohibi-tion era there was a net reduction of $343,009,000 in taxes on distilled and fermented liquors, the report shows. From distilled spirits the government received $97,907,000 in the last fiscal year, while the taxes from the same' source in 1919 were $365,211,000. Taxes on fermented liquors for the last fis-' cal year aggregated $41,965,000 and for the fiscal year of 1919, $117,839,-000. $117,839,-000. The transportation tax, which had been estimated to produce about $275,-000,000 $275,-000,000 annually, reached $307,808,000 for the last fiscal year. This included taxes on freight, passenger, express, telephone and telegraph, and transfer of oil by pipe line. Excise and special taxes, including the "luxury tax," brought about $373,-000,000 $373,-000,000 into the treasury. One of the chief items in this list was the tax on motor cars, which netted $144,000,000. Taxes on jewelry, cosmetics and other so-called luxuries produced another an-other $50,000,000. The special corporation corpor-ation tax on the value of its stock yielded $93,000,000. The 1919 consumption of cigars was 7,110,000,000, and in the fiscal year of 1920 ranged slightly above 8,200,-000,000. 8,200,-000,000. The report showed that taxes had been paid on 30,950,000,000 cigarettes in 191S, 3S,100,000,00 in 1919 and 50,-400,000,000 50,-400,000,000 in the fiscal year ended June 30. Commissioner Williams reported the year's expenditures of the bureau of internal revenue at $27,700,000. This included an expenditure of $2,100,000 for enforcement of prohibition, $465,-000 $465,-000 for enforcement of the narcotic laws, and $90,000 used in enforcing the laws against child labor. The actual cost of tax collection Mr. Williams Will-iams estimated at 50 cents on each $100 collected, an expenditure of about 1 per cent more than In 1919. |