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STATEMENT of the RECEIPTS and EXPENDITURE of the CONSOLIDATED FUND for the Year ended 31st March, 1946.

* Rebates in respect of motor-spirits used otherwise than as fuel for motor-vehicles in terms of section 6 of the Customs Amendment Act, 1939, amounted to £228,124 lis. f £499,483 18s. lid. of this amount consists of fees, fines, &c., which are not taxation.

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RECEIPTS £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d„ Balances at beginning of year— Cash 2,318 7 3 Investments 2,830,000 0 0 Imprests outstanding 423,470 9 8 3 78S Ifi IT O 9 iJfJO ? t OO 1U lit. TAXATION Customs 8,800,016 8 9 Beer duty 2,308,599 15 1 Sales tax 4,505,442 12 3 Film-hire tax 134,472 7 10 Highways 2,324,068 7 2*f Stamp dutiesAdhesive stamps 169,133 19 7 Duty on instruments 508,278 11 2 Fines and penalties 2,242 14 4 Impressed stamps 252,303 2 4 Licenses to companies 93,183 12 2 Sharebrokers' licenses 1,472 0 0 Duties payable by racing clubs 1,555,247 6 2 Amusements-tax 178,450 9 4 Lottery duty 28,023 19 6 Overseas passenger duty 10,231 8 7 Miscellaneous 1,878 4 3 Receipts under section 4, Mortgagees' Indemnity (Workers' Charges) Act, 1927 .. 1,643 19 0 1 9 8ft2 08Q ft y 0\J4J j VOi1 Vj *J Land-tax 937,395 0 3 Income-tax 26,465,911 18 4 Miscellaneous 92,722 10 11 Total Taxation 48,370,718 7 0' INTEREST On Capital Liability— Working Railways (interest at £4 per cent, on the total amount of capital moneys deemed to be expended in respect of the railways, as provided by Order in Council under the Government Railways Act, 1926) — Year 1944-45 (balance) 99,473 3 3 Year 1945-46 : £2,889,194 17s. 2d. Less reduction made in terms of Finance Act, 1930 (No. 2), section 14 : £1,829,192 2s. 1,060,002 15 2 1,159,475 18 5 Less amount outstanding 100,002 15 2 1 OW 473 3 3 Carried forward 1,059,473 3 3 51,626,507 3 11