LOCAL BODY TAXES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1936, Page 12

LOCAL BODY TAXES.

INCREASE FOR YEAR. £6,042,000 IN 1934-35. EQUALS £3 17/10 PER HEAD. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLIN'GTOy, Friday. According to figures made available by the Government Statistician, Mr. J. W. Butcher, the total of local body taxation for the financial year ended March 31, 1935, reached £6,042,033, an increase of £11,556 over the figures for the previous financial year. As a result of the slight rise in population, however, this figure represents a drop from £3 18/3 per head of population in 193334 to £3 17/10 per head in 1934-35. The following table maices a comparison between receipts from local body taxation for the past two financial years:— 1033-34. 1934-35. Rates £5,541.255 ±5,511.442 Licenses, etc. . . . 489,224 530,591 Totals £6,030,479 £G. 042,033 In the latest figures available, receipts from rates were made up as follow: General rates, £2,461,161; other rates, £3,050,281. Official figures reveal that the peak of local body taxation was reached in 1930, when rates yielded £6,540,796, representing a payment of £4 8/7 per head of population. Gradual reductions in both the per capita rate and the total yield followed during the depression years, although there was an increase in the yield of 1934, which has been maintained '.n the latest official figures.