HIGHER REVENUE.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20262, 3 August 1937, Page 3

HIGHER REVENUE.

CUSTOMS RETURNS. SALES TAX COLLECTIONS. (Special to Times.) AUCKLAND, Monday. Customs and excise revenue and sales tax collections reveal a general Increase In the returns of the Customs Department in Auckland for July, as compared with the same month last year. Falls were recorded in both excise duty and sales tax payments compared with the figures for June, but the gain in Customs revenue more than compensated for this decline. Collections of Customs duty last month amounted to £272,366, as against £260,431 for July of last year and £260,419 for June. The total collection of Customs, motor spirit and tyre duty for July was £335,961, compared with £318,705 for the same month last year and £327,879 for June. Excise on beer amounted to £12,710, compared with £12.365 and £17,417 respectively, and the sales Lax yield was £81,956, compared with £69,417 and £84,570. For the first seven months of this year Customs revenue alone amounted to £1,913,930, the iolal for the corresponding period last year being £1,765,580. With motor spirit tax of 6d a gallon and tyre duty added, the respective figures wert £2,379,192 and £2,221,168. E\ci«e on beer during the January-July period this year amounted to £104.378, against £90,039 last year, and from sales tax £574,346 were collected, compared with £464,022 last year. A GENERAL INCREASE. WELLINGTON RECEIPTS. (By Tele?--'* * ' WELLINGTON, Sunday. The net Customs duty collected In July was £345,179. compared with £289.466 in July of 1936. an increase of £55,713. Sales tax showed an increase of £23,575, beer duty £5Ol. petrol at 6d a gallon £5896, and petrol ill 4d a gallon £3935. For the first seven months of this year net customs duty totalled £2,065,574, compared with £ 1.827. i 81 in the similar period in 1936. RISE OF £IO,OOO. FIGURES AT DUNEDIN. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Sunday. Customs duly collected at the port of Dunedin during the month or July shows an increase of nearly £IO,OOO on er the total for the same month last year, the respective figures,being £72,293 and £62,952. With the exception of beer duty, which was Jess by approximately £3OOO than the returns during July of last year, the L remaining figures also showed an in-

crease, the total for the month being £133,338, compared with £121,774 for July of last year. Following are the figures for July, together with comparative figures for July of last year:—Customs duty. £72,293 and £62,9511; beer duty. £17,260 and £20,025; sales tax, £25,920 and £22,757; petrol tax, £14,437 and £13,734; tyre tax, £933 and £931; gold export duty, £2495 and £1375.