RECORD MONTH.
SALES TAX RECEIPTS. £337,492 FOR JUNE. REVENUE STILL SOARING. Sales tax revenue is still soaring and total receipts in June amounted to £■337.402, the highest figure since the tax i was lirst imposed six years ago. Returns ; for the month were no leas than IS per ' I cent higher than in June last year, in j I spite of import restrictions, and the total j I tor the first halt of the year, £ 1,857,614, ! I showed a rise of 10.8 per cent. i j The monthly yield of the tax in the pasrt j i years is as follows:— 1935. 1937. £ £ July 295,664 278.968 August .... 287,519 301,002 September . . 296,020 300,714 October .... 305.579 305.769 November . . 304,381 307,824 December . . 329,350 311.047 1939. 1938. January .. . 330,294 317.59S February . . 254.484 230.525 I March 314.707 277.690 I April 310.597 292 281 I May 310.040 273 087 J»»e 337.492* 255.73S ! •lleeurd. j h.xpectations that the revenue from the ! , tax would be reduced by import lestric- • I tion<s have not so far been realised, but recent tightening of the restrictions may j have this effect. " ]
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 190, 14 August 1939, Page 4
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180RECORD MONTH. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 190, 14 August 1939, Page 4
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