RECORD FIGURES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 1, 1 July 1939, Page 11

RECORD FIGURES

SALES TAX COLLECTIONS

PORT OF WELLINGTON

Customs duty collected at the Port of Wellington for the month of June is the high?st monthly return so far ibis year. The total, £335,716, is £59,292 |& the collection for June r 1988/ The figures for the first thre> months of the current financial -year and for the six months ended June 30 also show an increase. Sales tax collected \dtiririg June reached a record level for the whole -time that* the" tax; lias 5 been imposed, arid the : figures for the past three months arid alserfor the .''six* months epded yester-^ day also show a substaatiai advance compared with. , the corresponding petjdds^il last; year. An advance is ■■■;*&8o' shown mth4: month's collections of motorspirit taxation. Beer duty and tyre fax are up likewise. details for last month,. together with the figures lor June last year, are as

iouqtms:— ■■■■■:? Juiie, 1939. JUne, 1938. ;- ':\ ■:.'.■•■■'•■"■.■ ' ' " •£ s. d. & ' 8. a. Customs duty 535,715 19 4 .276,424 2 5 Sales tax 134,327 IS 6 116,156 11 4 "Beer duty .. 6,523 12 4 5,810 0 0 Motor spirit at . 6d ....,...■ 44,412 14 0 ' 41,673 .1 ,0 Tyrps ...... 2,887 7 1 2,075 7 7 For the three months ended June 30 and for the corresponding period last year the -figures were:-—. 1039.. . , 1938.: ■ ■ ■& s. d. ■-...& a* d. Customs duty 920,891 9 7 877;528 16 S -.-''SUM' tax ... 377,289 5 0 327,439 23 Be«t duty ...-••' 19,747 8 11 19,998 33 ft Motor spfclts . 134,562^, 10 0 i 133,653 13 • 0 TJtW/.--..^ : :-6,861 9 10 6,1S6 15 S Ciikibmh revenue for the six months of the current year totalled £1325,837, which is £51^53 greater than the total fpr flie first half of 1938. Over the two six nfontns periods sales tax collected this year showed an advance of £84,835. ■ It roay be noted that, as. far as Customs revenue is concerned the whole of thiR increase shown for the ■first six months of this year is accounted, for by -the excess of last . month's total/ over that for June: last ■,-year.'. .■' ' ■, .-.■■. ,••. . '."■. •. • .. :/- ; ■■■-, The following1 are the net Customs duty figure's to the nearest £ for the past*twelve months, compared with the previous year:—-

1938. 1937. ■ ■• •■.. July 275,001 : 345,179 ;* August .......... 357,925 ' 359,041 { Septemberv. ...... 320,410 385,309 October ,.....«'.. 302,876- '330,603 v November ....... 378,835 S69,4i55 December ...... 321.950 265,969 1939. 10.18, . ■ :--\: ■ i ■•'■•, ■ £ .■'.•■■••£ ,'■■;- JfftttUaty ....... 279,053 313,182; February 304,761 ' 262.07J A ■■ -■ = March . .........321,026: 321,102 , At>rll ivi,;::.'i4..i;.. 264,839 • 309,155 '-May ,.....;........ .320,416 291,949 v June ;-i*...A;... -335;716 276,424/ ; A?V *v.; £JW82,849 £3,830,400