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Show U . S. TAX BILL SHOWS INCREASE Decline in Liquor Receipts Overcome By Growth of Income and Profits Levy WASHINGTON, Oct 11 I By The Associated Press.) America's tax bill for the fiscal year ending June 30 i amounted to $5.40K,07r.,46s. approximately approxi-mately B billion and a hnlf dollars; more than was paid into the federal 1 treasury In the previous twelve months The figures were contained In the pre-Hminary pre-Hminary report of the commissioner of internal revenue, made public last, nisht. It shows that from Income and profits taxes the government received re-ceived approximately t hrcc-fourths of :il! Its revfnue. In these two items j there w as an Increase of ll!356,p0.0,-1 000 over the flsral year of 1919, receipts re-ceipts for the two years being 1920, 13.957 701.000, 1919. 600. 000, 000. From multifarious sources of "miscellaneous" "mis-cellaneous" taxation, the levy produced $1 450. 374, 000. an Increase over the , n ioua year at $201,000,000 1 QUOB TAX DECLINES. In the first full year of the prohibition prohi-bition ra, there was a net reduction of ?34.1,00O,00O In taxes In distilled and fermented liquors, the report showed. From distilled spirits the coernmrnt received $97,907,000 In the last fiscal year while the taxes from the same source In 1919 were .!0ip.'1I Taxes on fermented liquors for the last fiscal year uggre-tgated uggre-tgated $41,966,000 and for the fiscal yiar of 1919. $1 17,839,000. The report also shows comparative revenues for ib- fiscal years of 1919 and 1920. The former d.-ite was the 1 1 -1 fdll yeat In whlr-h the government derived it principal revenues from three sources distilled spirits, fermented fer-mented liquors and tobacco. Taxes produced on the three items In 1909 amounted lo $244.1' I 1,000 while this revenue In the year just ended was snr.7is.oon in 1909 these takes constituted con-stituted 99 1 par cent of the nations; revenues while last year they were I only 8. 00 per cent of the total taxes. Vlthough there was a big decrease In 1 taxes on liquors between the two years shown there was a correspondingly! greater Increase in the revenue from tobacco In all of Its forms In 1909. the tobacco tax amounted to onl $. 1.8S7.OU0 while In 1920 it was $295.- 845.000. the report showed. M Y OTHER 11 If S. Th transportation tax which had bsen estimated to premier- a bout $27.").-, 11 annually, reached $307 f.uS.000 for the Iset fiscal year. Thi included (axes on freight, passenger, express,! telephone and telegraph and transfer of oil by pipe line Kxclse and special' taxes Including the " luxury tax" I brought about $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' jewelr cosmetics and other so-called luxuries" produced another f 66,000,-1 000. The special corporation tax on I the value of its stock yielded $93,000.-1 000 Withdrawals from bonded wnre-! houses of distilled spirits for Industrial and other non-beverage purposes Increased In-creased from 1 1,000,000 to more than dim) ikmi -nil, n;, iroio 1919 lo 1920, the report disclosed But In withdrawals with-drawals from bond of diatllled spirits which were labelled for beverage use there was a decrease from 72,500.000 gallons In 1919 to 200,000 gallons in the last fiscal year. The 1919 consumption of cigars was 7.110,000,000 and In the riscil year of 1920 ranged slight!, above S. 200.000,-000. 200.000,-000. The report showed that taxes had been paid on 36.9."i0,000,000 clcarettes in 1 9 1 'I V I ii. i. mi. i ooo n 1 :U9.' and 50.400,000,000 iM the fiscal year ended June Co I T Ml p Ws SHARE. Commissioner W illiams reported the year's expenditures oT the bureau of internal revenue at $27,700,000. This included op expenditure of $2,100,000 for enforcement of prohibition. $4C5.-Ooo $4C5.-Ooo for enforcement of the narcotic laws and $90,000 used an enforcing the laws against child labor. The ac-tual ac-tual cost of tax collection, .Mr. Wil-llama Wil-llama estimated at 50 cents on each I $100 collected, an expenditure ofj about one per cent more than In 1919. Internal revenue receipts for 12 months by states and territories Includes'. In-cludes'. Alaska $500 oso Arizona, $6,697,-315 $6,697,-315 California. $179,267,565. Colorado. Colora-do. $35,72 7,957, Huwull. $1 1,929,872; Idaho. $1,963,264. Iowa, $40,312,788, Kansas $4 1,263,376; Missouri, $149,-192,659 $149,-192,659 .Montana $6 770,237. Nebraska, Ne-braska, $25.066 4 17, Nevada. $1,297,-! 334. New Mexico, $1,968,009; North Dakcta, $3,338,660; Oklahoma, 26.-289,102: 26.-289,102: Oregon $27,669,223; South Dakota. $6 669.794 Texas, $103,097.-940; $103,097.-940; Ftah. $9,595,151; Wyoming, $4-.'.",.282 $4-.'.",.282 and Philippine Islands, $1,-323.478. $1,-323.478. The total for all states and territories territor-ies was $5,408,075,468 |