A BIG INCREASE

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 132, 1 December 1936, Page 6

A BIG INCREASE

<SAbES TAX SOARS

An ktGfcase of £545,657 in the.net Customs\.revenue collected at the Port o.t! Wellington is shown by the figures for the e'flpven months ended November 30 asr icompared with the revenue for the sa.:jie period last year. An increase of J&82.518 is shown in the total net reveniacicollected during November : compared ~«»ith the same month last year. I The detailed net figures for each of the last ctevc b months are as follows:— 1935. 1936. !Z £ i January . . .i.. 221,424 231,145 l-'eoruary . .1. 19^,«31 22y,93b March ...A,. 208,137 278.953 April » 207,431 270,4G0 May .- 249,402 262,191 June 188.69 V 259,261 July 212,0tf8 289,466 August : 243,910 289,754 September .-• 227,827 283,601 October 5,60,389 274,365 November .. 355,871 338,390 Totals .; 2^37,867 3,013,524 Sales tax for November soared even ! higher than the recoiid of the previous month this year. October's collection was £99,605, November's was £100,912, an increase of £27,4.V5 over Novembeßeelr3excise duty lotaV-led £7110, as against £5096 for Novinitoer last year. The total motor spirits duty collected this month was £66123, made up o± £39 671 at 6d per gallon,.<and £26,45.2 at 4d per gallon. Thi«; shows a decrease of £1396 on NoWnitaer ot last yeTy're tax yielded £17119 as against £1475, an increase of £244. ~