Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS. [ARTICLE]

INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS.

Decrease of $3,000,000 from Those of March, 1894. The monthly statement of collections of internal revenue issued Wednesday shows the total receipts from all sources for the nine months of the present fiscal year ended March 31, 1895, to have been $109,995,015, of which $19,802 was from income tax from persons and $8,855 from corporations, companies and associations. The remaining items of receipts were: Spirits, $63,902,869, increase for the nine months, $1,180,739; tobacco, $22,106,326, increase, $951,385; fermented liquors, $22,301,665, decrease $309,215; oleomargarine, $1,185,222, decrease, $262,193; miscellaneous, $470,273, increase, $360,539.

The net increase for the nine months was $1,950,163. The principal single item of increase was $1,295,628 from whisky. The increases and decreases for the month of March, 1895, compared with March, 1894, are shown as follows: Spirits, decrease, $2,905,024; tobacco, decrease, $145,364; fermented liquors, decrease, $180,115; t oleomargarine, decrease, $34,000; miscellaneous, increase, $17,317; income tax, increase, $16,839; aggregate decrease for the month, $3,230,355.