STATE OF EXCHEQUER
YEAR NEARLY OVER
CUSTOMS EXCEED ESTIMATE
(British Official Wireless.) . (Received March 14, 1.10 a.m.) RUGBY, March 13. With three weeks of the financial year to go the Exchequer returns show that the total ordinary revenue amounts to £974,480,480, compared with the revised war Budget estimate of £995*180,000 and with £859,731,074 at the corresponding date last year. .. The yield of. Customs revenue already exceeds the estimate of -£239,600,000 by ■ , £5,155,000. Receipts from income tax total £363,559,000, compared with £390,000,000 estimated ~. in the Budget and £309,858,000 a year ago. The total expenditure, less self-bal-l encirig -items, is £1,160,863,311, as against £883,536,086 at the correspond- .-. ing date last year. The estimated total" expenditure was £1,431,127,000. The floating debt outstanding is £2,506,665,000, an increase of £586,355,000: since the beginning of the 1 financial year and of £606,480,000 since the corresponding date in 1939.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 63, 14 March 1940, Page 12
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