In connection with the function of collecting miscellaneous amounts due the United States the following transactions were accomplished through the miscellaneous debt records: Cancellations, collections and set-offs during fiscal year 1941__ 217, 547, 030. 73 Indebtedness as of July 1, 1941__ Number of United States (debt) certificates of settlement issued during the fiscal year 1941__ GASOLINE TAX COLLECTIONS 501, 124, 376. 95 1,002 Efforts toward collecting amounts paid as State tax on gasoline purchased for the use of the United States were continued during the year. No changes occurred during this period as to the number of States which grant exemptions and make refunds, except that North Dakota will not now make refund. The list of States which do not grant exemptions remains the same. (See p. 26 of report for fiscal year 1939.) VOUCHER AUDIT WORK The volume of work incident to the audit of vouchers covering expenditures and collections and reported in accounts of accountable officers during the fiscal year 1941 is set forth in some detail in the statement and tables which follow: There were preaudited for the departments and various independent agencies 354,818 vouchers amounting to $125,208,314.41 and in connection therewith exceptions in total or in part were stated on 23,598 vouchers. The field preaudit of payments under Section 8 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of Februray 29, 1936, 49 Stat. 1149, as amended, and other programs administered by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration continued throughout the year. The preaudit of payments for the northeast and east central regions was performed at Washington, D. C. Under these programs there were preaudited 7,698,318 payments aggregating $626,337,188.91, exceptions being taken to 85,930 payments. During the fiscal year 19,200,506 vouchers, an increase of 2,198,681 over the previous year, were post audited and at the close of the year the number of unaudited vouchers on hand was 4,451,832. As the result of audit 77,702 notices of exceptions were stated and during the course of the year collections were made of amounts due the United States on account of suspensions and disallowances for a total of $194,797.79. In collaboration with the United States Civil Service Commission, there was established a new procedure for the audit of the initial payments of annuities to individuals retired under the provisions of the Civil Service, Alaska Railroad and the Canal Zone retirement acts whereby such initial payments are audited immediately after being made. |