DETAILS OF REVENUE
REVENUE
Estimate 1947-48
Estimate 1948-49
$
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1.-DUTIES.
Import duty on hydrocarbon oils
3,000,000
Import duty on liquor
6,000,000
4,000,000 (1) 5,500,000
(54)
Import duty on perfumed spirits
200,000
Import duty on tobacco
23,000,000
200,000 25,000,000
(2)
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Duty on locally-manufactured liquor
2,500,000
2,500,000
Duty on proprietary medicines and toilet preparations
3,000,000
2,500,000
(54)
Duty on table waters
200,000
350,000
(2) (3)
Total
37,900,000
40,050,000
2.-ASSESSED TAXES.
Assessed taxes (Rates), Hong Kong
4,350,000
7,500,000
Assessed taxes (Rates), Kowloon
2,150,000
3,500,000
Assessed taxes (Rates), New Territories
6,000
15,000
(4) (5) (6)
Assessed taxes (Rates), New Territories, South
4,000
Total
6,510,000
11,015,000
3.-INTERNAL REVENUE.
Bets and sweeps tax
1,250,000
2,000,000
(8)
Dance halls tax
200,000
400,000
Earnings and profits tax
16,000,000
40,000,000
(10)
Entertainment tax
3,000,000
3,500,000 (11)
Estate duty
2,500,000
2,000,000 (12)
Meals and liquor tax
3,000,000
2,750,000 (13)
Stamp duties
4,000,000
7,500,000 (14)
Total
29,950,000
58,150,000
4.-LICENCES, FINES, AND FORFEITURES.
A.-LICENCES.
Air services
Arms
Auctioneers
Bakehouses
1,200 13,000
2,400 (15)
45,000
(15)
1,800
1,800
8,300 (16)
Banks
Billiard tables
Boats
600,000
(16)
5,400
5,000
(12)
165,000
180,000
(15)
Cattle, goats, and swine
4,000
(16)
Chinese boarding houses
12,000
10,000
(12)
Chinese undertakers
12,000
20,000
(15)
Companies, local registers
1,500
5,000 (17)
Dairies
2,150 (16)
Dance halls
12,000
8,400 (18)
Dangerous goods
6,000
10,000 (19)
Dangerous and offensive trades
20,000 (16)
Dogs
35,000
35,000
Eating houses and restaurants
50,000
70,000 (15)
Emigration passage brokers
1,200
Ferries
434,000
1,200 434,000
Fishing stakes and stations
500
800 (15)
Food factories
25,000 (16)
Food-preserving establishment
25,000
(16)
Forestry, New Territories
6,000
6,000
Game
6,000
20,000
(15)
Hawkers
90,000
750,000
(15)
Hydrocarbon oils
13,500
20,000
(15) (19)
Junks
Laundries
Liquor
Marine store dealers
Marriage
Massage Milk shops Miscellaneous
Money changers
50,000
60,000
(15)
4,300
(16)
500,000
800,000
(15)
25,000
40,000
(15)
8,000
20,000
2,000
2,200
2,400 (16)
2,000
3,500 (20)
90,000
34,000
(12)