EIRE'S FINANCES
BUDGET INTRODUCED TAXATION NOT ALTERED SETTLEMENT WITH BRITAIN DUBLIN. May 12 No new taxes and no tax reduction marked the Eire Budget, which was introduced> in the Dail to-day by thp Finance Minister, Mr. Sean McEntee, He said £600,000 had been allotted for defence, making the year's total £2,272,314. - The estimated revenue was £31,505,000, and the expenditure. £31,500,090. Interest charges in connection with the British loan were estimated at £425,000 in 1938. Mr. McEntee recalled that the capital value of payments to Britain would have been £100.000,000. and the community, therefore, might feel satisfied that it was advantageous to settle the dVrn for £10,000.000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23037, 14 May 1938, Page 15
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