OCR Text |
Show Tax Collectors Are Increased Washington. Tax reduction advocates advo-cates have received additional comfort com-fort from a treasury tabulation showing show-ing that, in spite of the lower sched- ules which became effective this year, internal revenue collections for July amounted to $125,866,639, compared with $110,814,885 during the same month of 1924. The decreases due to the new law included a drop from $6,-000,000 $6,-000,000 in July, 1924, to $1,500,000 in July, 1925, on amusement tickets, and there were also reductions in receipts from various other forms of sales and consumption taxes. There were considerable con-siderable gains from tobacco and corporation cor-poration taxation. The total collection collec-tion of income tax from corporations and individuals during July was $34,-953,218. $34,-953,218. In July last year it was $19,-264,137. |