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Show uTahStt half I The commissioner of Internal revenue rev-enue has issued a preliminary state-' state-' ment of collections under tho revenue act of 1923 for the fiscal year ending Jun- 80, lL'L'. showing how the revenue rev-enue law enacted by the prevent run-(prltoa run-(prltoa cut down taxes 35 per cent i throughout the nation, j In Utah) the reduction Is 51 per (cent; Idaho 54 per cent; Colorudo 3 1 I per cent; Nevada 31 per cent; Wyom-i Wyom-i ing 36 per ent and Arizona 49 pc Leant. Tho greater reduction In Utah, 'Idaho and Arizona Is due to a greater proportion ot families In those st iti than In the others. In Income and profits taxes, the dc-creaae dc-creaae in nation is $1,140,191.4-9 9'J. 'in Utah it is 6,414. 861.87; Idaho 2,-1606.870.91; 2,-1606.870.91; Arizona 52,061.428. 50. ; Ptah furnishes moro income to thi. United States than do Arizona" and : Idaho combined. Dlftilled spirits show a loss as compared com-pared with the provloua year of $37,-1 $37,-1 043,980.19, Tho only Item In distilled spirits showing an increase Is grape I brandy uaed in fortifying sweet wines t6S7.018.Bl. Fermented liquors show an increase ;n taxes collected $2u 622.18. CIGAJtETS LNOREASE. I obai co allows an increase for lb-U2 lb-U2 period of $15,539,310.19. Most of this Increase is for cigarets. $15, 074,146.19. The item of cigars is the only one showing a decrease. The number ot clajareta BOld in the United states for the year ending June 3u 1921, increased 11 per cent ovajr the aales of the previous year, or 4,9 74 -039,580, an average of cigarets during the. year for each man. woman and child. Th ; figures by Individual! BpitOfl ore not yet available. Documentary stamps show a de-l erej.se of $12. 20 J.7S8. ;r.. or a falling olf in the country's business of about' j'i per cent. The decrease in transportation taxes aggregates $101,2 78,628.42. some of the transportation taxes having b.en! repealed entirely In this Item, thei people of I'tah were relieved of Gov -I eminent taxes in excess of Jl50o-000 Jl50o-000 0o. LESS LJQUOR OOI7SUMED rin- vrlthdrawala of U x jjyui sjiirit.- .or Consumption lias dec .-eased steadily since 19 17, the item of fermented liquors, whi.h w..s t;i 729.609 gallon.., In 19 17. having disappeared entirely whi. h In distilled spi'lts it WM 1CU-66o.24C 1CU-66o.24C gallons in 1 .17. and for th. ' ' ' "ding June 4. 1922. w.,.s only l.079;04l, a decre le Of nearly iij pei i ent, owing to prohibition ' in I9L'1 the wltlidr i.va .-i were 84,928,488 gilloua, -i falling f. f In 1922 of 15 -M4 142 sallons, or nearly 47 per cont. now Voric city if the heaviest tax-paying tax-paying unit In the nation. 6687,442,-159.62 6687,442,-159.62 having- been collected for the laca year ending Jun- 30, 1922, nrhil Nevada Is the lowest of the 11 " 1 . 39. the only tax- laying unit lowei than this .riH th m 'hillppioe islands, with $457,136 51 ' N'.-w York state alone paid S77l.772.-J 771.22, or nearly one-fourth pf the amount of internal revenue taxes pala! in tli" entire nation, which In 1922. La i 3,197,461,088.00 no |