DETAILS OF Revenue.
1.-DUTIES.
REVENUE
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Approved Estimate, 1940-1941.
Estimate, 1941-1942.
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Import Duty on Liquor
Hydrocarbon Oils
2,300,000
2,850,000 (1)
2,300,000
3,700,000 (1) (2)
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Perfumed Spirits Tobacco
176,000
140,000 (3)
7,000,000
7,500,000 (1)
Duty on locally manufactured liquor
Table Waters
1,750,000
1,700,000 (1)
300,000 (4)
Total
13,526,000
15,690,000
2. ASSESSED TAXES.
Assessed Taxes (Rates) Hong Kong
5,070,000
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91
Kowloon N.T. North
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77
1
South
Total
9,288,000
2,440,000
9,700
7,500
(5)
5,400
5,000
9,303,100
7,522,500
3.-INTERNAL REVENUE.
Bets and Sweeps Tax
300,000
350,000 (6)
Entertainment Tax
450,000
350,000
Estate Duty
1,500,000
1,200,000
Stamp Duties
3,000,000
2,500,000
Total
5,250,000
4,400,000
4. LICENCES, FINES & FORFEITURES.
(A) LICENCES.
Air Services
Arms
Auctioneers
Billiard Table
800
700
40,650
2,000 (7)
1,250
1,250
1,400
1,400
Boat
Chinese Boarding House
133,900
125,000
15,200
13,500
Chinese Passenger Ship
1,350
1,050
Chinese Undertakers
2,650
1,300
Companies Local, Registers
4,500
2,500
Dance Halls
5,350
3,000
Dangerous Goods
25,700
19,000 (8)
Dogs
40,800
25,000 (9)
Eating Houses & Restaurants
15,000 (10)
Emigration Passage Broker
2,600
Ferries
542,760
Fishing Stake & Station
810
Forestry N. T.
11,000
1,400 434,000 500 10,000
Game
Hawker
5,650
2,000 (7)
85,000
45,000 (11)
Junk
Liquor
55,000
60,000 (9)
490,000
345,000 (12)
Marine Store Dealer
Marriage
Miscellaneous
Money Changers
11,900
9,000 (11)
7,500
350
9,000 (9) 1,000
21,000
18,000
Carried forward
$
1,507,120
1,145,600
(1) Increased duties.
(2) New duty on kerosene.
(3) Decreased consumption.
(4) New duty on table waters.
(5) More new buildings.
(6) Increased tax.
(7) Arms withdrawn from licensees.
(8) Change in regulations.
(9) More licences.
(10) New item.
(11) Fewer licences.
(12) Eating
separately.
Houses
and
Restaurants now shown
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