CUSTOMS FIGURES FOR DECEMBER

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29401, 31 December 1960, Page 16

CUSTOMS FIGURES FOR DECEMBER

Customs revenue collected In Christchurch during December was £1,037254, £102,434 less than in the same month last year, mainly because of a drop In the amount of customs and excise collected. In the nine months of the present financial year £8,495,303 in customs revenue was collected—£Bl,soo less than the £8,576,803 collected in the same nine months of the 1959-60 year. The December figures, with the December, 1959, figures in parenthesis, are: customs and excise, £608,779 (£737,433); petrol tax, £211,198 (£169,175): tyres, £837 (£253): sales tax. £212,339 (£229,072); light dues, £1440 (£1409); miscellaneous, £2661 (£2346); totals, £1,037,254 (£1,139,688). The figures for the nine months to December 31, with those for the same nine months in 1959 in parenthesis, are: customs and excise, £5,115,012 (£5,101,876); petrol tax, £1,568,495 (£1,460,994); tyres, £5961 (£3356); sales tax. £1,774,733 (£1,982,507): light dues, £11,676 (£12,459); miscellaneous. £19,426 (£15,611); totals, £8,495.303 (£8,576,803). AUCKLAND Total customs revenue collected at the Port of Auckland during the year was more than £lm above the collection for 1959. At £33,958,258, the figure was £1,166,371 higher than the previous year’s total. Last year the total collections were £s.lm above the 1958 figures. With the exception of sales tax, all classes of dues showed an increase on the previous year’s revenue. Sales tax was £1,140,671 lower at £5,664,546, customs dues were almost £lm higher for the year at £15,384,775 and other dues were up by £889,425. Tyre tax, at £41,021. was more than double last year’s figure. The figures of collections for the month of December, however, show the opposite result. At £3,408,593, they are £192,311 lower than for December, 1959. Customs revenue, sales tax and other dues are all lower for the month. Changes In Import Licence Scheme (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, December 30. Linoleum and congoleum has been withdrawn from the replacement licence scheme during the 1961 import licensing period, the Comptroller of Customs (Mr J. F. Cummings) announced in Wellington today. Mr Cummings said that the 1961 import licensing schedule originally provided for the scheme to apply to linoleum and congoleum only, and it did not include other forms of floor coverings such as linoleum tiles and sheet vinyl flooring.

Since the release of the schedule a certain amount of inequity throughout toe floor covering trade had become apparent. Also, should toe present situation continue, toe department foresaw certain administrative problems, particularly related to toe present local production of vinyl tiles and toe proposed local manufacture of sheet vinyl flooring later in 1961. For these reasons, said Mr Cummings. it had been decided in the best interests of all concerned, to exclude linoleum and congoleum from the replacement licence scheme.

Alternative provision would be made for these goods during toe 1961 period to toe extent of 100 per cent, of toe value of such goods imported during the 1960 period. |