BRITAIN'S REVENUE.
GENERAL INCREASE SHOWN. United Presa Associations-Copyright) ' LONDON/ Jan. 15. The Exchequer.' returns ' show that total ordinary': revenue,.;;: excluding self-balancing, items, amounts to £479,607,056, compared with £459,076,406 at the. .corresponding date last year. Receipts from income tax are £97,713,000, compared With £94,482,0000 ior the same period of the last financial year. The returns ' cover the second week of the last quarter of the financial year, in which the connection of income tax is heaviest, and receipts for that week are £13,390,000, against £12,537,000 in the; corresponding week in 1935. Receipts from surtax are also higher than in the same week in the last financial year, though to date they amount to £16,190,030, compared; with £19.245,000 in 1935. Estate duties have yielded £66,950,000 to date, against £67,815,000 last year and the budget estimate of £80,000,000 for the whole year. ...... Revenue from customs excise is £239,575,000. compared with £229,590,000 at this fame last .year. '■■ The total ordinary expenditure is £578,022,064,. compared , with £553,158,191 r.t'" the'''' corresponding date in 1935.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 80, 16 January 1936, Page 5
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