DEATH DUTIES COLLECTED SINCE 1908, SHOWING SEPARATELY TAX ON ESTATES UNDER AND OVER £500, AND ON ESTATES OF £5,000 AND UNDER LEFT TO WIDOWS.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1914 Session I, B-29a

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1914. NEW ZEALAND

DEATH DUTIES COLLECTED SINCE 1908, SHOWING SEPARATELY TAX ON ESTATES UNDER AND OVER £500, AND ON ESTATES OF £5,000 AND UNDER LEFT TO WIDOWS.

Return to an Order of the House of Representatives dated the 10th July, 1914. Ordered " That there be laid before this House a return showing the amount of death duties collected for the financial year prior to the amendment of the Act in 1909, and for each year separately from then, and up to and including the year 1914, each year ending for the purpose of the return on the 31st March : the return to show separately the amount of tax collected upon estates under £500 and over £500, and to show separately the amount of death duties levied upon estates left to widows of a value of £5,000 and under."—(Right Hon. Sir J. G. Ward.)

Death Duty collected upon Estates under and over £500. Under £500. Over £500. Y ear - £ s. d. £ s. d. 1909-10 1,886 13 8 181,388 2 3 1910-11 4,577 6 11 284,640 8 6 1911-12 . ... 4,292 12 1 349,152 19 7 1912-13 1,906 11 7 437,913 18 4 1913_14 1,416 3 7 586,287 8 7 Total for five years ... £14,079 710 £1,839,382 17 3 Estates left to Widows, £5,000 and under. Nil. (No duty payable.) P. C. Corliss, Commissioner of Stamps. Approximate Oott of Paper.—Preparation, not given; printing (650 copies), £1 2s. 6d.

By Authority : John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington.—l9l4.

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