INCREASE OF TAXATION.
OVER- £22,000,000 LAST YEAR. EQUAL TO' £lB 11s Id PER HEAD. Tho following statement, of revenue from taxation during the last- financial year, compared with the amounts for (he previous year, is published in the official abstract of statistics:— *
Totals ... £22.184,441 £16,251.769 “Includes taxation on instruments. Tho taxation per head of mean population for the last two .years is given ns follows: ,
1920-21 1919-20 Exeliid. Maoris £lB 11 1 £l4 2 3 Inelud. Maoris 17 16 3 13 11 1 A note is added that half the total increase of nearly £6,000,000 is due. to the great, increase in the total value of imports.
1920-21 1919-20. Customs 138.403,726 £4,830,325 Beer duty 350,525 355,403 Land tax 1,688,979 1,557,905 Income tax 8,248,945 6,369.765 Death duties ... 1,105,925 978,095 Bank composition 236,712 232,626 Totalizator tax 497.961 413,654 Amusement tax 79.921 68,065 Oilier taxation* 1,555.729 1,465,933
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15565, 7 July 1921, Page 8
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144INCREASE OF TAXATION. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15565, 7 July 1921, Page 8
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