BRITISH FINANCE
THE REVENUE DEPARTMENTS INCREASE IN ESTIMATES lOmclal Wireless) RUGBY, March 31 The Estimates for the Revenue Departments total £91,086.700, representing an increase of £3,962,325 over 1937.. The totals for the individual services are: Customs and excise, £6,065,200; inland revenue. £3,219.500; Post Office. £76,302,000, being an increase of £3,574.000 over last year, of which salaries account for in increse of £1,573,600 and debt nnuities an increase of £1,083,164. MORE INCOME TAX INCREASE IN DEFENCE FALL IN STAMP DUTIES United rress assn.—Elec. TeL Copyrign LONDON,'March 31 Income tax brought nearly £IO,OOO- - above the estimate. Stamp duties, chiefly owing to the heavy decline in Stock Exchange business, fell £5,000,000 below the estimate. Defence expenditure from the Budget and from borrowing totalled £262,000,000, an increase of £76,000,000 over the previous year.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20464, 2 April 1938, Page 7
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