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Show FEDERAL TAXES li ENORMOUS SUM 1 Two and One-half Years' War H Taxation Equal Previous iH Fifty-five Years WASHINGTON, Apri'l 21. Govern- f ment revenues since September, 1917, about equalled revenues for the fifty- . five years prior to that year. Tho Internal revenue bureau an-Inounced an-Inounced tonight that in the two and one-half years of war taxation, rev-euue rev-euue receipts aggregated 311,181,109,- . ' 000. while for the fifty-five vear period they were $11,5S2,000,000. mM The collection of this sum was in ihe hands of former Commissioner Roper, during whose term yearly , amounts were: From September, 1917, to June 30, 1918, $3,545,235,000; July l, 1918, to July 1, 1919, ?3,S50,- "H 150000 and from the latter date to , " M March 31 of this year the last collec-tion collec-tion date, $4,085,723,500. V nit: mum sources ol revenue or tne v government upon the date the bureau wascreated in 1862 until 1900 were . taxes on liquors and tobaccos. A new era of taxation came In on August 5 of that year, which marked the advent ' of income and excise taxes on cor- M porations But, it was not until Ameri-ca Ameri-ca entered tho war that the heaviest taxes known to history were levied. Prior o 1917, the government col-lectcd col-lectcd revenues in excess of $500,000,- M 000 In only one year. In 1916, the receipts were $812,702,000, the figures I showed. jH |