(C5)
COMPARATIVE YEARLY STATEMENT OF THE REVENUE,—Continued.
', each separate Tax or Duty Jesse Jing to the classification
poned in the Estimates.
Amount collected in 1938.
Amonnt collecte:l in Incrense.
1939.
Cause of Increase
Decrenso.
or Decrease.
Brought forward,
★ – LICENCES & INTERNAL AVENUE NOT OTHER- WISE SPECIFIED,—Conid,
(8) Istensal Revenue. Ard Taxes (Rates),
C.
4.
2,451,813.97 3,231,022.84
817,694.95
97,986.08
89
5,987,126.31 6,776,168.00)
789,041.69
Increased ussessments, more new properties and rateable improvements.
N.T. North,...
4
N.T. South,...
8,016.49
1,906.93
8,291.86
4,642.00
277.87
2,675.07
2
here and Sweeps Tax,
Entertainment Tax,
Istate Duty
Suup Duties
238,274.89 248,713.01 10,438.12
320,027.80 951,988.95 31,961,09
1,220,854.17 721,527.75
2,321,918.76 2,531,108.72
206,159.96
Water Excess Supply and
Meter Rents,
2,315,668.20 2,212,035.31
More refunds and reductions
in 1939.
Influx of refugees.
Increased population and new
cinema theatres.
499,820.42 Fewer large estates than usual,
Increased business and transfer
of commercial forms from Chinese ports.
103,032.86 Cheaper rates per unit intro-
duced from 1.1.39.
(C) FINES & FORFEITURES.
Billing Covenant Fines,
Fires,
Forfeitures,
18,213.37 21,860.01 3,655.64
161,854.56 172,604.79 10,840.23
50,354.51! 174,021.54 124,567.00
More extensions,
Variable.
-
do
Total
|15,008,620.05 16,454.986.31| 1,997,311.62′
640,945.36
I-FEES OF COURT OR
OFFICE, PAYMENTS FOR
SPECIFIC PURPOSES AND
BEIMBURSEMENTS
IN
AID :-
(4) FEES.
Air Services,
02,880.201
40,898.58
12,081.62 Hankow/ Hong Kong air ser- vices cancelled owing to Sino-Japanese conflict
Ambulance and Cremation,
1,017.00
Analysis,
80,085.00
1,834.00
20,702.50
89.00
9,382.50 Less commercial work due to
war conditions,
Dils of Health,
10.230.00
11,820.00
Births and Deaths Registration,.......
9,315.00 13,927.00
1,584.00
4,584.00)
Increased propulation.
D'ake Pier Ticketa,
477.76
553.50
75.71
Blary Stones and Survey
23,911.25
23,469.00
472.25
Cemetery,
814.05
800.95
85.30
Certificates to Chinese proceed- ing to Buy Foreign Country
750.00
3,400.00
2,650.00
China Companies,
166,571.51 100,603.62
Chinese Cemetery ..........
14,885.50 21,910.50
7.525.00
(1) Golden Gate Exhibition & (2) exodus of a number of Hong Kong born Chinese to Manila after outbreak of the European war.
05,907.89 Political troubles in Shanghai.
More burials and more exp·¢ñ»
dive sites preferred.
Carried forward,
321,401.87 249,078.05! 16,501.01
89,827.261