BRITISH EXCHEQUER
COLLECTION OF. INCOME TAX. , . [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, February 16. Exchequer returns show that the total drdinary revenue amounts to £637,544,040, compared with £617.757,852 at the corresponding date las't year."' Britain has now entered the period of the financial year when the collection if income tax is approaching the peak. Last - week’s yield, both of income tax and surtax, exceeded the amount collected in the corresponding Week by £18.695,000 to £185.717.000, Oom pared with last year’s rise by £15.776,000 to a total at the corresponding date.of £180,174.000. The total from customs and excise is . ££78,503,000 compared with £266,107,000 last year. The total ordinary expenditure is £076.745,721, compared with £637.667,273 at the corresponding date in 1936.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 February 1937, Page 10
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