BRITAIN’S HUGE REVENUE.
ACCORDING’ to a .recent Parliamentary return, in 1819 Great Britain collected £52,605,508 in total revenue. In the interval the amount has?increased tenfold, the revenue foi 1916-17 being £526,233,500, as compared witli £306,699,000 in
1015-1(5. Among the sums collected last year were: Customs, £66,370,000; excise, £49,666,000-; estate, etc., duties, £30,240,000; property mid income tax, £201,170,000; excess profits duty, £139,075,000, the taxes totalling £497,015,000 in all. Non-tax revenue accounted for £57,810,500, and the expenditure on civil government in 1819 amounted to £4,439,333, as .compared with £76,597,500 last year. Irish revenue, which is given separately, totalled £19,498,000 last year. The total revenue collected in the United Kingdom in 1916-17 was £575,923,000, Englapd contributing 80.61 per-cent., Scotland 10.76 per cent., Ireland 4.12 per cent., and other sources 4.50 per cent. The nation’s aggregate expenditure (including. £1,973,665,000 on naval and military operations) is returned for last year at £2,198,113,000. '
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1758, 29 November 1917, Page 2
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147BRITAIN’S HUGE REVENUE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1758, 29 November 1917, Page 2
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