COMPARATIVE FIGURES

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Year ending
Mar. 31, 1918.
Customs      .    ,    .    .	71,261,000
Excise    .    .    .    ..   .	38,772,000
Estate, etc.. Duties     .	31,674,000
Stamps		8,300,000
Land Tax    ....	665,000
House Duty.    .    .    .	1,960,000
Income Tax and Super-
Tax    		239*509,000
Excess Profits Duties,
etc.    .....	220,214,000
Land Value Duties     .	685,000
Postal Service  .    .    .	35,300,000
Crown Lands    .    ,    ,	690,000
Sundry Loans, etc.      .	6,056,250
Miscellaneous   .    .    .	52,14.8,3,15
707,234.565

Increase.
700*000
Decrease.
£
Year ending
Mar. 31, 1917.
—	17,608,000
442,000
422,000
25,000
20,000
70,561,000
56,380,000
31,232,000
7,878,000
640,000
1,940,000
205,033,000    34,476,000

139,920,000
521,000
34,100,000
650,000
8,055,817
16,516,765	80,294,000
164,000              —
1,200,000                    — -
4.0,000              —
—              1,999,567
35,631,550              —	
573>427,582     i53.4-i4.55o,    19,607,567
£133,806,983
Net Increase;	

A more interesting comparison perhaps is to
take the actual receipts during the past financial
year and compare them, not with the former year,
but with the estimates of the expected yield of the
various items. In this case we get the following
comparisons:—

Actual.
71,261,000
38,772,000
31,674,000
8,300,000
2,625,000
2,600,000      4"     25,000
239,509,000
220,214,000
685,000
35,300,000
690,000
6,056,000
52,148,000
Certainly, the country is entitled to congratulate
itself on this tremendous evidence of elasticity of
Customs
Excise  .
Estate Duties
Stamps
Land Tax and House
Duty      .     .    .
Income   Tax  and
Super Tax    .
Excess Profits Tax
Land Value Duties
Postal Services
Crown Lands   .
Sundry Loans, etc.
Miscellaneous .    .

Estimated.
£
70,750,000
34»95°»000
29,000,000
8,000,000
224,000,000
200,000,000
400,000
33,700,000
600,000
7,500,000
27,100,000

Difference,
•4-    511,000
4- 3,822,000
4- 2,674,000
4-   300,000
+15,509,000
-J-2O,2I4,O06"
+     285,000
4- 1,600,000
4-    90,000
4- t,.444,000
+25,048,000