PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
♦ MORE REVENUE
DEPARTMENTAL COSTS RISE IN TAXATION The ordinary ravenue account ol the Consolidated Fund for the financial year ended March 31 last discloses an increase in taxation £5,384,429 10s 3d over the previous year. • The figures for the last financial, year (the" figures for the previous year being given in parentheses) are as follows:—Customs. £9,499,254 I £8,161.----161); beer duty, £841,584 (£715,042); sales tax, £3,044,613 (£2.4fi'2,601)J film-hire tax, £72,209 (£60,657); goldexport duty, £108,793 (£106,976); highways, £2,503,111 (£2,124,130); stamp and death duties, £3,162,503 (£2,841,766); land tax, £1,407,877 (£458,872);, income tax, £6,618,718 (£4,581,328); miscellaneous, £42,183 (£43,881). ... The ordinary revenue account also benefited from ' interest payments amounting to £2,387,118, and revenua receipts totalling £1,819,225. The receipts for this account totalled i £31626 823, as against £26,377,263. The details of the net expenditure for the years ended March 31 under the headings of annual'appropriation! are as follows:—
1936-37. £ Lerlslatlve 10ti,S40 Prime Minister's Department 27,502 Treasury ., 40,854 Customs ..' 112,097 Land and Income Tax 14i4 r? Stamp Duties 91,3o4 Audi? 36,121 Public Service Commissioner's Office . 6,982 Internal Affairs ... 358,003 External Affairs ... Io8,2oo Printing and station arv 227,422 Marine 123,423 - Labour -206,358 Native 28G.956 Valuation - 5S,oOS Electoral 1J.80G Census and Statistics 63,808 Justice and Prisons . 2"H » Crown Law Office ... ■ U18 Police 496,?(T Naval defence 632,061 Defence ..'. ■ 560,016 Maintenance of public works and services 1,174,991 Lands and Survey .. 4Q1.899 Agriculture 692,266 Industries and Commerce, Tourist and Publicity > 176,807 Scientific and Industrial Research ... 97,ol6 Mines ......:.... 28.922 Transport 28,038 Health : 996,839 Mental Hospitals .:.. . 334,636 Education 3,396,234 Pensions 5,072,735 National Provident and Friendly Societies 112.5M Unauthorised expenditureServices not provided for 36,790 1833-35. 79,23? 23,52» 41,834 .96,034 74,823 '87,514 29,468 4,334 363.67J ■ 136.66T 176.09T 112,710 44,970 48i918 48.178 S5.S33 151,110 6,272 453,890 . 462.244 \532,125 145,493 189,651 591,802 1G1.87S •. 59.S4T 2,<205 80S.966 279,669 2,795,0« 3,769,612 102,86* . 13,34* Total, annual appro- '. ■ _ priations £16,586,658 £12,142,118
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 134, 8 June 1937, Page 10
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302PUBLIC ACCOUNTS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 134, 8 June 1937, Page 10
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