284
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DETAILS OF REVENUE.
1.-DUTIES.
Import Duty on Liquor
Motor Spirit
Perfumed Spirits
Tobacco
Duty on locally manufactured liquor
Total
2.-ASSESSED TAXES.
REVENUE
$
Approved Estimate 1939.
Estimate, 1940-41.
$
1,500,000
2,100,000 (1)
900,000
1,500,000 (1) (2)
120,000
176,000 (1)
4,600,000
7,000,000 (1)
1,250,000
1,750,000 (1)
8,370,000
12,526.000
Assessed Taxes (Rates) Hong Kong
6,200,000
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Kowloon N.T. North
11
17
21
South
19
Total
9,288,000 (3)
7,650
9,700
4,350
5,400
6,212,000
9,303,100
3.-INTERNAL REVENUE.
Bets and Sweeps Tax
200,000
300,000 (4)
Entertainment Tax
300,000
450,000 (4)
Estate Duty
1,250,000
1,500,000
Stamp Duties
2,800,000
3,000,000 (5)
Total
4,050,000
5,250,000
4.-LICENCES, FINES & FORFEITURES.
(A) LICENCES.
Air Services
600
Arms
25,000
800 40,650 (6)
Auctioneers
1,500
1.250 (7)
Billiard Table
1,400
1,400
Boat
127,000
133,900 (8)
Chinese Boarding House
16,500
15,200 (9)
Chinese Passenger Ship
1,500
1,350 (10)
Chinese Undertakers
1,400
2,650 (11)
Companies Local, Registers
2,250
4,500 (11)
Dance Halls
4,000
5,350
Dangerous Goods
25,000
25,700
Dogs
22,000
40.800 (6) (11)
Emigration Passage Broker
1,400
2,600 (11)
Ferries
406,401
542,760 (12)
Fishing Stake & Station
1,000
810 (13)
Forestry N. T.
10,000
11,000
Game
Hawker
Junk
Liquor
Marine Store Dealer
Marriage
Miscellaneous
Money Changers
5,000
5,650
65,000
85,000
42,000
55.000
325,000
490,000 (6)
9,000
11,900
3,500
7,500 (14)
500 16,000
350
21,000
Carried forward
$
1,112,951
1,507,120
(1) More consumption, increased population.
(2) Heavy oil tax.
(3) Rise in rentals and less vacant tenements.
(4) Increased attendances.
(5) Improved business conditions.
(6) More licences issued.
(7) Fewer temporary licences.
(8) Increased fees.
(9) Fewer licences issued.
(10) Singapore restrictions limiting number of passen-
gers.
(11) Includes 2 periods as fees are payable annually
in the 1st quarter.
(12) Increased fees for Western Ferry Service.
(13) Fewer stake nets erected.
(14) More registry marriages.