CUSTOMS REVENUE
INCREASE IN SEPTEMBER FALL OVER NINE MONTHS Customs revenue collected fit Auckland during September amounted to £252,098, an increase of £21,133 compared with the figure for the corresponding month last year. However, the revenue collected for the nine months ended September 30 t0ta11iny£2,113,277 showed a decrease' of £293,171 compared with the similar period in 1910. Sales tax revenue was higher for September, and the nine-monthly period, the respective increases being £2OOB and £16.788. Collections last month were as' follows, the, figures for September, 1940, being shown in parentheses:—Customs, £252,098 (£230.965); excise on beer, £34,8-56 (£25.892); sales tax, £96,998 (£94,990); War Expenses Account, £109,086 (£109.676). For the nine months ended September 30, the totals were: —Customs. £2,113.277 (£2,406.4481; excise on beer, £253.991 (£227,792); sales tax, ££60.789 (£814.001); War Expenses Account, £994.276 (£335.026). COLLECTIONS IN THE SOUTH C HI? TSTCHURC' H CO MP ARI SONS [by TELKG It A I'll —r It ESS association] CIiRISTCHURCH, Tuesday The Christchurch customs figures for September, 1940, and September, 1941, were as follows: —Customs, £58,932 £80,645; beer duty, £15,558, £12,477; sales tax, £3S,BOi, £42,603; war expenses, £43,776, £46,688. The figures for tlie six months in 19-10 and 1941 were: Customs, £516,685, £463.296; beer duty, £88.814, £97,119; sales tax £258,001', £257,927; war expenses, £117,891. £295,581. RETURNS FOR WELLINGTON [by tkleg it a rn—niEss association] WELLI X G TON. Tu esd a v The net customs revenue this month amounted to £236,517, compared with L' 225.828 in September. 1940. The total i'or nine months this year is £2.188,929, compared with £2,508.471 in the corresponding period of 1940. War tax under its four separate heads totalled £128,002, against £121,524 in September. 1940. For the nine months the totals were £1,123,599 and £474,261. Collections of sales tax in September. 1941, and 1940 were £96,883 and £97,402 respectively. For the nine months the totals were £816.302 and £916.880. Peer excise this month were £BO4B, against £7973 in September, 1940, and for _ the nine months the totals were £76,652 and £76,191. DTJNKDIN FIGURES [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] DUNEDIX, Tuesday The customs returns at Dnnedin for September 1941 and 1910 were as follows, the figures for September, 1941, being given first: —Customs, £40,113, £39,197; beer. £14,053. £47,571; sales tax, £30,318, £31.453; war expenses, £-11.482, £42,076. The figures for nine months of the- calendar year were as follows: Customs, £119,622, £514,561; beer, £335,032, £341,177; sales tax, £271,425, £2(56.711; war expenses, [j365,461. £157.227.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24084, 1 October 1941, Page 3
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