£93,685 IN TAXATION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19827, 3 January 1939, Page 7

£93,685 IN TAXATION

CUSTOMS TOLLS COLLECTIONS IN GISBORNE £10,512 FOR DECEMBER The year 1938 ranks as the new boom year for the Gisborne branch of the Customs Department, the taxation collected by that office under the three main headings being £93,685 lis Id, as against £84,482 12s 7d for the previous year. All the main sections of State revenue handled by the office showed a decided increase over 1937, and a feature of the returns is that the sa'es tax payments for the 12 months exceeded the collections in excise duty upon beer. The December returns for the two years are given for comparison in the 'ollowing table:—

Totals .. 10,512 G 10 8,981 12 11 In the above table, the customs dues on imports shows a figure in excess of that for any single month since 1929. The comparison of the three main heads of taxation for the year furnishes the following table: — 1938 1937 £ £ Customs .. 53,179 18 8 49,243 6 G Beer excise 20,156 19 1 17,152 17 2 Sales tax . 20,349 13 4 18,068 8 11 Compared month by month for the past two years, collections at the Gisborne office show a steadily rising trend, the over-all comparisons being distinctly in favour of 1938, while in almost every instance the individual monthly totals of that year exceeded those of-the previous 12 months. The figures are as under: — CUSTOMS REVENUE

SALES TAX RECEIPTS

1938 1937 £ £ Customs 0,449 8 G 5,150 18 9 Beer excise 2,220 17 0 2,170 12 11 Sales tax .. 1,842 0 10 1,054 1 3

1938 1937 £ s d £ s d January 3,596 9 2 3,688 4 9 February .. 3,119 13 0 3,709 1 3 March 4,863 5 1 4,239 8 0 April 4,301 8 7 4,419 0 9 May 4,225 16 10 3,760 16 8 J une 4,693 7 9 3,498 14 6 July 3,484 1 2 3,917 0 6 August 5,008 17 3 4,660 3 1 Sept. 4,590 16 8 3,909 15 6 October 4,750 5 2 3,628 0 0 November 4,096 9 6 4,652 12 9 December 6,449 8 6 5,150 18 9 53,179 18 8 49,243 6 6 BEER EXCISE PAYMENTS 1938 1937 £ s d £ s d January .. 1,694 2 6 1,523 13 11 February .. 1,926 16 3 1,640 7 7 March 2,209 3 8 1,960 i 4 April 1,593 0 0 1,136 13 8 May 1,555 6 0 1,375 11 9 June 1,164 8 9 1,289 6 4 July 1,232 17 9 1,051 15 11 August 1,373 19 2 1,187 11 3 Sept. 1,259 1 3 1,063 1 8 October 1,502 3 9 1,200 13 0 November 2,345 2 6 1,547 8 4 December 2,220 17 6 2,176 12 11 20,156 19 1 17,152 17 2

3 938 1937 £ s d £ s d January .. 2,327 3 6 1,875 8 10 February .. 1,669 5 7 1,060 8 6 March 1,651 19 4 2,045 14 2 April 1,465 6 6 1,369 4 4 May 1,596 9 3 1,290 7 2 June 1,671 11 10 1,289 6 4 July 1,583 10 4 1,438 11 7 August 1,565 19 10 1,506 18 5 Sept. 1,646 6 8 1,636 3 9 October 1,638 2 7 1,382 16 1 November 1,691 17 i 1,519 8 6 December 1,842 0 10 1,654 1 3 20,349 13 4 18,068 8 11