SALES TAX YIELD
RECENT DOWNWARD TURN DECREASE IN AUGUST Sales tax receipts during August amounted to £271,332, a decrease of £14,198 below the total collected in July, and a decrease of £16,187 below the figure for August, 1938. During the first six months of this year the amount of sales tax collected each month was substantially above the figure for the corresponding month of last year, but in July and August receipts have been considerably below the figures for those months of 1938.
The total 1 amount collected during the first eight months of 1939 was £2,414,476, an increase of 6.8 per cent above the total for the same period' of 1938, which was £2.260,102.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20074, 21 October 1939, Page 2
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115SALES TAX YIELD Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20074, 21 October 1939, Page 2
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