SALES TAX RETURNS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 89, 17 April 1939, Page 4

SALES TAX RETURNS.

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SHARP FALL IN FEBRUARY. Although showing a substantial drop from the peak figures of December and January, the amount of sales tax collected during February '(£254,484) is a record for a February month, being £23,959, or 10.4 per cent above the receipts for the corresponding month of j last year. February always produces the | lowest monthly figures in respect of sales j tax, as the yield in that month is almost . wholly in respect of eales made in January, when both wholesale and retail sell-1 ing are at a comparatively low ebb, due I largely to the reaction following the j Christmas shopping season. | Monthly collections for the past two j years compare as follow:—

1038. 1937. February £230,525 tl 94,624 March 277.090 290.037 April -202.-51 293,082 May 273.087 309,790 June 2S.J.738 283,01)4 July 295,604 278,908 AuRUSt 2S7.519 301,002 September ..... 290.020 300.714 October 308.579 305,7(5.9 November 304.381 307,824 December ...... 329.350 311,047 1939. 1938. January -330,294* 317.59S February 254,484 230,525 ♦.Record.