CHINA
591
Budget Statements in China have yet to become the precise documents that they are in other countries. The following estimates for the fiscal year ending June 1916 were published by the Chinese Government, but they cannot be taken too seriously.
(1) Land Tax
(2) Customs Revenue
(3) Salt Revenue
(4) Tax on Merchandise
Ordinary Revenue
...
...
(5) Various Principal and Miscellaneous Taxes (6) Miscellaneous Contributions
(7) Income of Government Properties (8) Various Provincial Receipts
(9) Receipts of Central Offices (10) Direct Central Receipts
...
...
...
$ 90,115,784
73,056,663
96,767,010
...
...
42,919,194
34,768,432
5,448,686
2,083,401
...
...
•
5,101,531
1,374,648
The total of the Ordinary Receipts is
(1) Land Tax
...
(2) Customs Duty
(3) Merchandise Tax
...
Extraordinary Revenue
•
...
...
...
...
...
(4) Principal and Miscellaneous Taxes (5) Income from Government Properties (6) Various Provincial and Miscellaneous Taxes (7) Receipts of Central Offices
(8) Direct Central Receipts
(9) Central Miscellaneous Receipts (10) Domestic Loans
(11) Public Loans
***
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
36,584,311
$388,009,600
$ 5,751,464 706,885 21,205 3,911,410
8,351
91,610 2,248,437 23,510,969
8,100,000 24,291,468
16,187,305
The total of the Extraordinary Receipts is $34,829,104 and the grand total of both the Ordinary and Extraordinary Receipts is $473,048,764.
Ordinary Expenditure
(1) Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its subordinate offices $1,446,548 (2) Ministry of Interior and its subordinate offices..
(3) Ministry of Finance and its subordinate offices...
...
...
(4) Ministry of War and its subordinate offices (5) Ministry of Navy and its subordinate offices (6) Ministry of Justice and its subordinate offices... (7) Ministry of Education and its subordinate offices (8) Ministry of Agriculture and Conimerce and its sub-
ordinate offices
...
...
...
...
...
42.570,109 61,792,970 156,606,047
7,304,135
...
9,337,156 1,133,893
2,734,790 1,533,606
1,044,216
$291,803,470
(9) Ministry of Communications and its subordinate offices (10) Ministry of Board of Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs
and its subordinate offices
The total of the Ordinary Expenditure is
...
Extraordinary Expenditure
(1) Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its subordinate offices (2) Ministry of Interior and its subordinate offices (3) Ministry of Finance and its subordinate offices (4) Ministry of War and its subordinate offices (5) Ministry of Navy and its subordinate offices (6) Ministry of Justice and its subordinate offices..
$1,846,786 3,117,770 162,397,633
...
10,711,333
...
817,734
28,610
(7) Ministry of Education and its subordinate offices (8) Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce and its sub-
ordinate offices
...
594,943
1,279,496
(9) Ministry of Communications and its subordinate offices 116,833 (10) Board of Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs
94,276
The total Extraordinary Expenditure is $181,03,114 and the grand total of both the Ordinary and Extraordinary Expenditure is $472,838,584.