THE FISCAL YEAR

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 62, 14 March 1934, Page 9

THE FISCAL YEAR

INDICATIONS IN BRITAIN

LIATEST TREASURY RETURNS

\ t (British Official Wireless.) .'..*, ' (Received^March 14^ 1 p.m.) ->■ .'- • BUGBT; March 13. ' UThe latest weekly Treasury returns shwvv that up to March 10. the , total ordinary revenue for the current financial/ year, which ends on March 31, amciainted to £676,908,092, and the ordikiary expenditure for the. : gam* perifaid to £631,185,662. For the full year.-it was. estimated that the ordrnarv \ revenue -would amount to ■£698&777,000 and the o\rdinary expenditure to £700,866,000. '- ■ . lulland revenue collected last week totrflfed £16,313,000, and included £10,1615,000 in income tax, £3,060,000 in sucitax, and £1,850,000 in estate dutiest. Eeceipts from Customs and excise lust week amounted to £5,072,000, and ti|i<e total revenue from this source duringj the current financial year now amountts ,to" £269,465,000, which is slightly in excess of the estimated ex-! cise for the full t year. Ordinary and self-balancing revenue.'to-date amounts to £7515,238,092, and the total . and sekf-balancing expenditure, aftf/ allowariice is made for two items not provide^ for in the Budget, £7,215,097, /piovisiom for a new sinking fund and £3.304,392 war debt payments to the United :Btates, amounts to £740,035,351. The Budget estimate for the ordinary and se If-balancing expenditure w&f £784,405t,000.