CLASS I
HONGKONG ESTIMATES
TAXES.
1. LIGHT DUES, Ordinance 10 of 1899,
Do.,
Special Assessment, Ordinance 10 of 1899,
TOTAL,..
2. LICENCES AND INTERNAL REVENUE NOT OTHERWISE
SPECIFIED :—
Approved Estimate, 1916.
Estimate, 1917
85,000
80,000 (1)
102,000
95,000 (1)(2)
187,000
175,000
Arms Licences, Ordinance 2 of 1900,
3,620
3,610 (3)
Assessed Taxes, Ordinance 6 of 1901,...................
1,820,700
1,836,000 (4)
Auctioneers' Licences, Ordinance 8 of 1887,
1,200
1,200
Billiard Table and Bowling Alley Licences, Ordinance 8 of 1887,
1,800
1,800
Boarding-house Licences, Ordinance 10 of 1899,......................
75
75
Boat Licences, Ordinance 10 of 1899,
100,000
95,000 (1)
Carriage, Chair, &c., Licences, Ordinance 8 of 1887,
114,500
119,500 (5)
Chinese Boarding-house Licences, Ordinance 30 of 1915, and Government
Notification 131 of 1916,
4,000
8,000 (6)
Chinese Passenger Ship Licences, Ordinance 1 of 1889, .
1,700
1,500 (1)
Chinese Undertakers' Licences, Ordinance 8 of 1887,
460
460
Companies Local Registers Licences, Ordinance 58 of 1911,
84,000
1,660 (7)
Dangerous Goods Licences, Ordinance 1 of 1873,
1,960
1,900 (8)
Dog Licences, Ordinance 5 of 1893,
6,000
6,200
(3)
Emigration Brokers' Licences, Ordinance 1 of 1889,
1,600
1,400
Ferry Licences, Ordinance 34 of 1910,...
10
10
Fines,
71,000
88,000 (8)
Fishing Stake and Station Licences, Ordinance 10 of 1899,
3,000
2,500
Fishing Licences,
10
10
Forestry Licences, New Territories, Ordinance 34 of 1910,
4,740
4,750 (8)
Forfeitures,
20,000
12,000 (1)
Game Licences, Ordinance 6 of 1885,
1,400
1,400
Hawkers' Licences, Ordinance 8 of 1887,
31,000
35,000 (10)
Carried forward,.
2,222,775
2,221,975
(1) Previously over-estimated.
(2)
REVENUE.
EXPENDITURE. Half Payments to 31st December, 1915, Do. estimated for 1916,
Typhoon Refuge.
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$ 678,724 89.000 336,062
$1,103,786
Light Dues. Special Assessment collected to
Do., Balance,
31st December, 1915,... estimated for 1916,.....
$ 1,090,2
$ 1,103
(3) Based on revised estimate for 1916.
(4) Based on present Assessment.
(5) Truck drivers have now to be licensed.
(6) More licences anticipated, due to possible alteration in
the system.
(7) Majority of companies transferred to Shanghai Register,
see" China Companies Fees" under Class II.
(8) More fines under Enemy Trading and Imports and
ports Ordinances than previously estimated.
(9) Fewer licences.
(10) More licences.