CUSTOMS REVENUE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20243, 1 May 1929, Page 14

CUSTOMS REVENUE.

INCREASE MAINTAINED.

OVER £60,000 MORE IN APRIL.

HEAVY PETROL TAX YIELD, The increase in the customs duty for the port of Auckland for the first quarter of the year, compiled with 1928, is more than maintained in the April returns, which are £62,044 in excess of those for the corresponding month last yoar. The revenue for the fi;:st four months of the year is greater by £80,025 than that for the same period in 1928. The customs duty for April totalled £195,663, while that for the same month last year was £137,729. Customs revenuo and tyre tax for the first four months of this year, compared with 1928 and 1927, is shown by the iollowing table:— 1029. 1928. 1927. January £218,053 £172,148 £'178.578 February 181,112 204.9G2 202,518 March 173,659 184,833 221,231 April ~: j 193.873 137,729 .157,229 Totals r.-Y JE77D.G97 £099,672 £759.551 Considerable revenue continues to be derived from the motor spirit taxation, which shows a largo increase over the figures for last year, which was lhe first year of its operation. The tax tliis year has already produced £99,324, compared with £72,402 for the same period of 1928. The figures for April show an increase of £10,555. A comparison of the respective returns for the first four months of 1929 and 1928 is given in the following table: — 1929. 1928. January r.-., r.v £31,910 £11,900 February r. r.v 26,445 11.963 March .-. r.-.Y r.v 10,210 28,453 April r. vi 80,741 20,186 Totals T.- rev £99,324 £72.402 These sums do not represent the total amount of revenue derived by the Customs Department from tho motoring public. To them must bo added £17,404, collected during the past four months in tyre tax, compared with £18,681 collected in tho corresponding period in 1928. The respective figures for April in 1929 and 1928 wore £4210 and £8203.

Beer duty augmented the customs revenue during the past month by £11,489, compared with £9288 in April of last year, and £9485 in the same month of 1927. THE FIGURES FOR DUNEDIN. GOOD INCREASE SHOWN. [BY telegraph.—press association.] DUNEDIN, Tuesday. The customs revenue received in Dunedin during April is as follows, tlio figures for April, 1928, being given in parentheses: —Customs, £63,697 14s 9d (£46,814 13s lid); beer duty, £23,724 12s 8d (£24,169 3s lOd); motor tyre tax, £1144 18s (£l2lO 14s); motor spirit, £7590 (£5979 13s 8d).