CUSTOMS YIELD

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23002, 1 April 1938, Page 12

CUSTOMS YIELD

THE FINANCIAL YEAR AUCKLAND FIGURES AN INCREASE OF £603,465 ALL-ROUND IMPROVEMENT Customs, excise and sales tax returns for the 1937-38 financial year, which closed yesterday, showed an increase at Auckland of £603,465. The total collected from all sources was £5,652,513, against £5,049,018 last year.

Tho customs revenue, including petrol and tyro duties, amounted to £4,412,199, an increase of £451,564, or 11.40 per cent over the figure for the 1936-37 period. Excise on beer produced £201,161, uu increase of £23,630, or 11.7 per cent moro than last year. The sales tax brought in £1,039,150 in tho past year, and £910,879 tho year before, representing an improvement of £128,271, or 14.7 per cent increase. Details of Oollections The respective totals are shown in tho following table: —

Sales tax ~ 81,000 53.1G3 Comparative Returns The following are comparative monthly returns of ordinary customs duty, petrol and tyre taxes and sales tax for the past two financial yearn:— CUSTOMS

CUSTOMS AND SALES TAX

[BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON. Thursday

New high records were established during the financial year ended to-day by customs revenue collected in Wellington and also by the amount of sales tax collections. Motor spirit, tyre tax and beer excise for the year also showed a substantial increase. For more than four years now the net customs revenue at Wellington, with the exception of last December, has every month exceeded the figure for the corresponding month of the previous year.

The figures under all heads for the 1937-38 and 1936-37 financial years afford the following comparisons:— Customs duty: 1937-38, £3,848,459; 1936-37, £3,372,666. Sales tax: £1,350,504; £1,146,173. Motor spirit: £867,243; £789,687. Tyre tax: £26,194; £22,565. Beer excise:' £79,085; £63,717. Tho net customs revenue collected last month totalled £320,649, compared with £318,105 in March, 1937.

CHRISTOHUROH FIGURES TOTALS CONSIDERABLY HIGHER [BY TELEGRAPH —rRESS association] CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday Customs revenue collected in Christchurch in the financial year ended today was £2,185,031 from all sources, an increase of £302,516 on last year's return. Contributing items to the heavy increase were customs duty, beer excise, petrol tax and sales tax, all of which wore considerably greater. Ordinary customs revenue rose from £1,087,720 last year to £1,263,142; beer duty rose from £104,902 to £125,156; petrol tax, from £255,087 to £290,999; and sales tax from £405,990 to £471,064.

DTJNEDIN RETURNS INCREASE UNDER ALL HEADS [by TELEGRAPH —PRESS association] DUNEDIN, Thursday In every department the customs returns for tho financial year ended today show a largo increase over the figures for the previous year, cuntoms revenue itself revealing an increase of over £84,000. Beer duty has risen by £37,306, sales tax by over £25,000, and petrol tax by £12,481. This allround increase is also revealed in the totals for the January-March quarter. The figures for tno financial year ended March 31, together with those for tho previous year, are as follows: Customs duty; 1937-38, £825,267; 1936-37, £740,327. Beer duty: £313,424; £276,118. Sales tax: £317,333; ' £291,666. Petrol tax: £193,227; £170,746. Tyro tax: £9629; £7904. Gold export duty: £23,276; £22,935.

Customs Petrol and tyres 1037-38 £3,557,811 851,388 1030-37 £3,224,728 735,007 Totals Excise on beer Sales tax . £4,412,100 201,104 1,0130,150 £3,000,035 177,534 010,870 Grand total . £5,(152,513 £5,040,0 IS The month of March fully maintained the average for the year, but the motor spirit and tyre duties were well above with an aggregato of £82,59<#. Sales tax, on the other hand, was slightly below the mean average for the 12 months. Tlio March figures were as follows: — - 1038 1937 Customs . .. £312,014 £208,045 Motor spirit A tyres 82,004 74,706 Totals Excise on beer . £301,008 20,503 £372,841 10,530

April 3937-38 1930-37 £308,(108 £200,418 May . . 214,113 232,200 June 200,11 f) 238,020 July 272,306 200,431 August 323,7(50 272,000 September 351,083 201,290 October 208,540 207,588 November . 312.207 301,220 December . 312,751 302,075 January . 313,304 201,431 February . 274,728 265,048 March 312.014 298,045 Total £3,557,811 £3,221,728 Receipts under the other headings are compared as follows: — MOTOR SPIRIT AND TYRE DUTIES 1037-38 1030-37 April £72,147 £55,154 May . 00,007 50,752 Juno 07,400 50,215 July 03,505 58,274 August 05,009 52,133 September . 08,417 50,680 October 07,250 01,225 November .. 70,750 03,200 December .. 82,477 70.348 January 74,127 58,304 February .. 72,587 00,730 March .. S2.591 74,706 Total £854,388 £735,007 SALES TAX April £02,200 £00,221 May . 85,850 08,02 L Jtine 84,570 72,445 July 81,050 00,417 A u gust .. 85,306 73,922 September . 80,802 70,445 October 88,977 81,521 November .. 80.043 84.042 December .. 01,003 85,253 January 05.100 80,757 February .. 00,255 r.n,748 March 81,090 83,103 Total £1,039,150 £910,879 WELLINGTON'S RECORD YEAR