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Date:
28.11.86
Time:
8.30
Reporter:
PMS
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I refer to the Government pay level.
Are you satisfied?
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CHAIRMAN:
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MR CHAN:
Yes.
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CHAIRMAN:
Okay. Could I ask, in 1981-82, was
Government subvented HK$21 million to the Tourist Association.
What was the total revenue for the Tourist Association at that
time from, at that time I think it is 4%, is it, 4 or 5%?
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SES:
13 accommodation tax.
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HK$42 million came from the hotel
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CHAIRMAN:
So from 1981-82 to '85-86 it has grown
from HK$42 million, no more than that, HK$111 million.
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SES:
HK$111.7 million, yes, for the reasons
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that I have given.
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SES:
MR CHEONG:
The revenue has grown by 80% more or less.
Perhaps, I think we should call it the
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hotel accommodation tax because there were other forms of revenue, for example, the contributions and general revenue.
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CHAIRMAN:
Yes, well, the contribution from general
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revenue is HK$21 million.
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SES:
In that year, yes.
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MR CHEONG:
In that year, but '85-86 is HK$5.6 million.
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SES:
'85-86, it has declined to 5.6, and in
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'86-87 it is nil.
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