INCREASED REVENUE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 140, 11 December 1923, Page 7

INCREASED REVENUE

EIGHT MONTHS' FIGURES

DECREASE IN LAND TAX,

Returns, Bhowng the revenue *nd expenditure of the Dominion for the eight months of the financial year, up to 30th November, have been mlde availablfby *« A^' "8-Mui.ster of Finwce (tbi Hon. W. Downie Stewart). , The totals compare with those for the cor^pond^ period, cfjast'ye^*:

1028-24 1921.J5. *J-M» M.»l«,07« 16| 4,5« j,^,^

tor. W , 6IW » 15.7 M.618 j^^^ comS:\^ er Th?lreweMc^^t«» The increases and decreases in .wen. diture » re e v«nly distributed throiigfiout difftrent vote., except that, in th?;c«e of the vot« "Working Bailwsy.," j BBUe B SS'J^fTl? °f £39'»°» compared with last year. .-.-,. .-. :: The ro»in items of revenue er« ai

1923-24 ISU-tt Increase mi. £ £ £ customs 4,693,071 3,613,635 1,079,416 »••«• dut? ,:•:;•• Ml,**) 372^48 -6,317 Itamp and Death . *>«*'«» ■••■.-9,180,763 1,167,3*3 -12,910 Post and Tele- ' gr»Ph 1,763459 1,687,280 6S oco ncome Tai ...... 317,318 324,910 19»ens Uilways 4,035375 »,«U,eS7 14301S HegWatien and M3 '81s . other fees ... lio.sai «*,« i« ■.-.■« ons Birine 63,641 30:872 • tSMB