FURTHER DECLINE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 246, 18 October 1939, Page 4

FURTHER DECLINE.

SALES TAX RECEIPTS.

RETURNS FOR AUGUST,

Sales tax revenue for the month of August at £271.332, besides showing a seasonal decline, is also below the figures recorded for the corresponding months both in 1938 and in 1937. The monthly yield of the tax in the past two years has been as follows:— ■ v 1938. 1937. September . . 290,020 300,714 October 308,379 305.789 November . . 304,281 307,824 December .. 329,350 311,047 1939. 1938. January ... 330.294 317 .>9B February .. 254,484 230.525 Mareli 314.707 277,090 April 310,597 292.281 May 310,040 273,087 •June 337,492 285,738 J" 1 *' 285,530 295,604 August 271,332 287,519