BRITISH EXCHEQUER.
INCREASE IN REVENUE. SATISFACTORY NATIONAL FINANCE (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 13. The latest weekly Exchequer returns continue to reflect the satisfactory stale of the national finances. The total ordinary revenue to dale amounts to £159,037,2.72, compared with £149,272,026 at the corresponding date .last year. Advances are shown under all the main headings. The inland revenue yield, to which income tax contributes £20,276,000, and estate duty £26,130,000, had reached a total of £56,546,000 on July 10, compared with £51,095,000 in 1936. On the same date £89,665,000, against £84,331,000, had been collected from customs and excise. The total ordinary expenditure amounted to £239,849,779, compared with £226,268,212 at the corresponding date last year.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20246, 15 July 1937, Page 9
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