BRITAIN'S HUGE REVENUE
TENFOLD INCH-EASE IN 97 YEARS. According to a Parliamentary retnrn published recently, in 1819 Great Britain collected ,£52,605,508 in total revenue. In the interval tho amount has increased tenfold, the revenue for 1916-17 being .£526,233,500, as compared with .0306,699,000 in 1915-16. Among the sums collected last year were: Customs, .£66,370,000; excise, JH9,6G6,000; eslate, etc., duties, j830,249,000 ; property and income tax, .£201,170,000; excess profits duty, .£139,075,000, the taxes totalling .£497,015,000 in all. Non-tax revenue accounted f or and the expenditure on civil government in 1819 amounted to ,£4,439,333, as compared with .£76,597, "500 last year. Irish revenue, which is j iven separately, totalled last year. The total revenue collected in the United Kingdom in lSlli-17 was ,£575,923,000, England contributing 80.61 per cent., Scotland 10.76 per cent., Ireland 4.13 per cent., and other sources 4.50 per cent. The nation's aggregate expenditure (including .£1,973,665,000 on naval and military operations) is returned for last year at £2,198,113,000.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 38, 8 November 1917, Page 6
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