SALES TAX UP
THE OCTOBER FIGURES wnmtliirm.. - OR/DINARY AND WAR REVENUE The amount of sales tax collected during the month of October was £595,813 (ordinary revenue purposes, £298,098;. war purposes £297,715), as compared with £576,075 (ordinary revenfie purposes £288,746; war purposes £287,329) in September, says the Noveember Abstract of Statistics The £298,098 for ordinary revenue purposes collected in October compares with receipts of £321,125 in the corresponding i©onth of last year, as the war-purposes portion of this tax did not come into force until June 28, 1940. From the date of its introduction (June 267 to the end of Octboer this particular tax has yielded £863,343 to the War Expenses Account. This represents a little over three months receipts, as collections in any one month are mainly in respect of transactions effected in the preceding month.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 257, 13 January 1941, Page 5
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136SALES TAX UP Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 257, 13 January 1941, Page 5
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