CUSTOMS REVENUE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23828, 2 December 1940, Page 9

CUSTOMS REVENUE

MAHKIiI) DROP SHOWN MORE FROM BEER DbTY HIGHER SALES TAX YIELD lii keeping with the decline shown in Auckland Customs returns in recent months. tlie amount collected in November was £73,039 less than that received in the same month last year. The total receipts for the respective periods were £279.0.~>D and £3->2,089. In the past 11 months, the total collected was £3,.">32,921, a decrease of £497.73!), compared with the corresponding period of 1939. Details of last month's collections, with returns for November, 1939, in parentheses, are as follows: —Customs. £222,627> ( £277..">6(5); motor spirit, at 6d a gollon. £5.),707 <£< 1 ' 1): tyre dutv. £7lB ( £192). Excise on beer produced £29,141 ( £2(5.11 1>; sales tax. £1()1,1U| <£92,GHI). Equivalent totals for 11 months were: Customs, £2,87)0,19(J (£3.l< / ,248); motor .spirit, £G">(5.899 ( £826.9(59); tyre dutv, £20.(£26.116). Excise on beer, £289.012 (212,00 i); sales tax, £1.013,829 (£1.001.132). Collections payable to the War Expenses Account last month were £111.981, compared with £113,961 in October, and £l-5.231 a year ago The total since the beginning of the year is £.560,971. The amounts include o per cent sales tax and proportions of additional duties on lirpior, tobacco and gold exports.

WELLINGTON COLLECTIONS DECK MASK IX WAR TAX TOT AI. [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] "WELLINGTON. Sunday The record amount collected at tinport of Wellington in October as war tax was not maintained last month, the November total being £126,951, compared with £ LSI .913 in October, but, last month's figures were substantially greater than the war tax figures for November of last year. ihe customs revenue returns for November, with the figures for November, 1939, in parentheses, were as follows: Customs duty. £231,278 (£210,517); sales tax. £96.209 (£116,153); beer, £10.351 (£9755); motor spirit. £31,21. (£33,094); tyres, £726 (£1263). War tax: Customs £28,952 (£19,616); sales fax, £96,524 (nil); beer, £1478 (£1332). CHRISTCHURCH RETURNS £16,000 MORE THAN LAST YEAR [by telegraph—press association! CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday Although customs duty again shows a considerable decrease, the total revenue collected for November by the Customs Department at Christehureh is substantially larger than for November. 1939. The returns, with those for 1939 first, are: —Customs, £88,206, £64,836; beer, £16,490, £18,753; petrol, £26,373, £20,166; tyres, £391, £410; sales tax. £38,326, £42,878; light dues, £426, £361; export levies, wool, £l, £SB; meat. £1296, -—; hides, —, £34; war expenses account, £7853, £48.244; miscellaneous, £4O, £36; totals, £179,402. £196,076.

INCREASE OF £30,000 COLLECTIONS AT DUNEDIN [by telegraph —press association] DUNEDIN, Sunday Customs returns for November show a slight drop of approximately £6OO compared with last year. Boer duty also declined by a little over £IOOO. The greatly increased war expenses account, which last month reached a total of £41.852, made a grand total of £172,068, approximately £30,000 ahead of total receipts for the samo period last; year. Returns, with those for last November in parentheses, are:—Customs, £15,000 (£16,185); beer, £.'30.266 (£10.373); sales tax, £.'31,225 (£28.966); gold £1567 (£722); tyres, £245 (£414); petrol, £12,112 (£15,116); export levies, wool, £6.'3 (£1); war expenses, £11,852 (£0087); miscellaneous, £l3B (£300); £172,068 (£142,101).