A DECREASE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 107, 1 November 1941, Page 11

A DECREASE

CUSTOMS REVENUE

WELLINGTON RETURNS?

A decrease of £10,764, as compared with the amount for October, 1940, is shown in the.net Customs revenue collected at the Port of "Wellington last | month. Small decreases are also shown in war tax receipts and -beer excise | collection, but sales tax shows a slight increase. j. For the expired ten months of this I year decreases are shown under all i heads except war tax. I Net Customs revenue "last month j amounted to £238,718, compared with £249,482 in October, 1940, a decrease lof £10,764. The total for the ten months of this year is £2,427,647, compared with £2,758,153 for the corresponding period of 1940, a decrease of E 330,506. War Tax under its four separate heads totalled £131,796, against £131,913 in October, 1940, a decrease of £117. For the ten months the totals are £1,255,395 and £606,174 respectively,' an increase of £649,221. ,

Collections of sales tax in October amounted to £98,977, as against £97,827 in October, 1940, an increase of £1150. For the ten months the totals are £945,279 and £1,014,707 respectively, a decrease of £69,428. Beer excise collection's last month totalled £8088, compared with £8799 in October, 1940, a decrease of £711. For;the ten months the totals are £84,740 arid £84,990 respectively, a decrease of £250.