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DETAILS OF REVENUE.
REVENUE
Approved Estimate 1939.
Estimate, 1940-41.
$
$
1.-DUTIES.
Import Duty on Liquor
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Motor Spirit
Perfumed Spirits
Tobacco
Duty on locally manufactured liquor
1,500,000 900,000 120,000
2,800,000 (1) (2) 2,300,000 (1) (2) (3)
4,600,000
176,000 (1) 7,000,000
1,250,000
1,750,000 (1)
Total
8,870,000
13,526,000
2. ASSESSED TAXES.
Assessed Taxes (Rates) Hong Kong
6,200,000
Kowloon
N.T. North
9,288,000 (4)
11
South
Total
7,650 4,350
9,700 5,400
$
6,212,000
9,303,100
3. INTERNAL. REVENUE.
Bets and Sweeps Tax
Entertainment Tax
Estate Duty
Stamp Duties
Total
4.- LICENCES, FINES & FORFEITURES.
(A) LICENCES.
4. bou
2400
200,000
OP REVENUE.
REVENUE
4. LICENCES, FINES & FORFEITURES,-Continued.
(A) LICENCES,-Continued.
Brought forward
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Approved Estimate 1939.
Estimate, 1940-41.
$
$
1,112,951
1,507,120
$
Motor Spirit
Pawnbroker
Pharmacy and Poisons
Printing Press
Special Food
Steam Launch Theatrical Tobacco
Vehicles Motor
3,000 156,500
5,600 (1)
190,500
1.000
3,500
5,400 (2) (3) 8,650 (2) (8)
20,000
25,200
16,500
19,000 (4)
-4,000
7,200 (3)
70,000
125,000 (5)
340,000
400,000
Motor Drivers
55.000
71,850
17
Other
40,000
54,400 > (6)
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Other Drivers, etc
2,000
4,450
51
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Motor Special Licensing Fee-Foreign Registration Wireless Receiving
80,000
100,000
135,000
254,000 (8) (7)
Other
5,700
16,800 (8) (7)
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(B) FINES & FORFEITURES.
200,000 300,000
800,000 (5)
1,250,000 2,300,000
450,000 (5) 1,500,000
3,000,000 (6)
Building Covenant Fines
Fines
$
4,050,000
5,250,000
Forfeitures
Total
5. FEES OF COURT OR OFFICE, PAYMENTS FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES, & REIMBURSEMENTS IN AID :-
15,000 150,000
20,000 (8)
180,000 (9)
40,000
65,000 (9) (10)
2,250,151
3,059,670
Air Services
Arms
Auctioneers
Billiard Table
Boat
Chinese Boarding House
600 25,000
800 40,650 (7)
1,500
1.400
1,250 (8) 1,400
(A) FEES.
Air Services
70,000
80,500 (11)
127,000
133,900 (9)
Bills of Health
9,000
13,500
16,500
15,200 (10)
Births and Deaths Registration
9,000
18,500 (12)
Chinese Passenger Ship
1,500
1,350 (11)
Boundary Stones & Survey
80,000
32,000 (18)
Chinese Undertakers
1,400
2,650 (12)
Cemetery
750
Companies Local, Registers
2,250
4,500 (12)
Certificates to Chinese Proceeding to any foreign country
500
1,150
850
Dance Halls
4,000
5,350
China Companies
210,000
270,000 (14)
Dangerous Goods
25,000
25,700
Chinese Cemetery
13,000
24,800 (15)
Dogs
22.000
40,800 (7) (12)
Consultants
10,000
18,000
Emigration Passage Broker
1,400
2,600 (12)
Court
85,000
86,000 (16)
Ferries
406,401
542,760 (13)
Crown Leases
40,000
87,000 (17)
Fishing Stake & Station
1,000
810 (14)
Deeds Registration
72,000
104,000 (18)
Forestry N. T.
10,000
11,000
Earth and Stone Permits N. T.
5,500
7,500 (19)
Game
5,000
5,650
Engagement and Discharge of Seamen
50,000
52,000 (20)
Hawker
65,000
85,000
Evening Institute
8,000
11,500 (21)
Junk
42,000
55,000
Examination of Masters, Mates and Engineers
1,500
1,900
Liquor
325.000
490,000 (7)
Marine Store Dealer
9,000
11,900
Marriage
Miscellaneous
Money Changers
8,500
7,500 (15)
500 16.000
350
Hong Kong Companies Registration
Carried forward
20,000
29,000 (22)
.$
684,250
778,200)
21,000
Carried forward
$
1,112,951
1.507.120
(1) More consumption, increased population.
(2) Increased duties.
(3) Heavy Oil tax.
(4) Rise in rentals and less vacant tenements.
($) Increased attendances.
(6) Improved business conditions.
(7) More licences issued.
(8) Fewer temporary licences,
(9) Increased fees.
(10) Fewer licences issued.
(11) Singapore restrictions limiting number of passen-
gers.
(12) Includes 2 periods as fees are payable annually
in the 1st quarter.
(13) Increased fees for Western Ferry Service,
(14) Fewer stake nets erected.
(15) More registry marriages.
(1) Hydrocarbon oils Ordinance.
(2) More licences issued.
(3) Includes 2 periods as fees are payable annually
in the 1st quarter.
14) Fewer licences issued.
(5) More tobacco importers and retailers.
(6) Increased population.
(7) Normal increases.
(8) More fines imposed.
(9) Variable.
(10) Includes £5,629 :11:3 @ 1/2-$91,599.66 con-
fiscated silver.
(11) Anticipated increase.
(12) More registrations.
(13) Fewer Boundary stones fixed.
(14) Disquiet in Shanghai; removals to Hong Kong.
(15) More burials in Government Cemeteries.
(16) Fewer distraints and write of execution issued.
(17) Leas Crown leases issued.
(18) More deeds registered.
(19) Fewer permits issued.
(20) More ships laid up.
(21) More students.
(22) More companies registered.
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