LESS CUSTOMS DUTY PAID
INVERCARGILL FIGURES FOR MAY Customs duties showed a sharp fall at Invercargill during May, little more than half of that obtained during the same month of last year being paid. Sales tax remained fairly constant, the effects of the higher impost not being shown to any extent. The figures under the various headings for May and those for the same monQi of last year were
AUCKLAND FIGURES (P.A.) AUCKLAND, May 31. Increases in the excise on beer, sal&s tax and War Expenses Account collections and a decrease in Customs duty as Compared with the • corresponding month last year are shown in the revenues collected during May by the Customs Department in Auckland. The figures for last month are as follows with the corresponding figures for last year in parentheses: Customs, £216,072 (£237,546); beer excise, £29,239 (23,474); sales tax, £110,826 (£104,247); War Expenses Account, £170,916 (£119,599).
as follows:— 1942 1941 £ s. d. £ s. d. Customs duties 8471 7 11 15,15913 3 Beer duty 172 9 8 176 6 0 Sales tax 3753 18 2 3998 9 3 War Expenses — Sales tax 4019 5 4 3996 9 0 Other 1092 7 8 782 10 8 TOTALS £17,509 8 9 £24,113 8 2
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Southland Times, Issue 24758, 1 June 1942, Page 4
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204LESS CUSTOMS DUTY PAID Southland Times, Issue 24758, 1 June 1942, Page 4
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