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33. Royalties payable by Transportation Companies. The question of the payment of royalties to Government by a transportation company was raised by this Department as although the company had been decontrolled as from the 1st February, 1946, no licence fees or royalties were being paid. In addition, Governant expanded £76,451.17 an repairs to piers, of which some portion at least would appear to be recoverable from the company. The question of the liabilities of this fim to Government is still under consideration and the matter is being kept in view by this Department.
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Dutiable commodities sold by N.A.A.F.I. As from the date of the liberation of the Colony up to 30th September, 1946, no duty had bean levied on liquor, tobacco and other normally dutiable commodities imported for, and sold by N.A.A.F.I. As from the 1st October, 1946, the Governor-in-Council ordered that duty should be collected on those sales, but, as an interin measure, all revenue collected should be paid into a suspense account pending a decision as to its disposal, The balance of the Suspense Account amounted to $1,650,225.46. at the 31st March, 1947. The arrangement continued up to the end of July, 1947, by which time the amount held in suspense totalled $1,177,463. The Govemor-in-Council agreed that $250,000 of this should be paid over to the Services for welfare purposes end that the Suspense account should be closed by transferring the balance to revenue.
The Secretary of State was informed of the matter. There after all duty collected in respect of N.A.A.F.I. cales was to be credited direct to revenue.
35. The refusal of the Services to pay rents and rates in respect of Enemy property, now under the control of the Custodian of Property, which has been occupied by members of the Forces, involves the Goverment in a loss of approximately $100,000 in revenue and the Custodia, sane $200,000 in storage charges. The matter has been referred to the Secretary of State for a decision in the Governor's savingram No.200 of the 16th April, 1947.
36. The Land Transport Department was instituted during the period of the British Military Administration and was subsequently taken over by the Public Works Deportment, subject to certain reservations by the Director of Public Works. The incomplete and unsatisfactory store accounts and records maintained by the Department has been the subject of much correspundence. During the military period, and for sone time after the resumption of the Civil Administration, transport was supplied daily to commercial firms and to Government departments as and when applied for, the vehicles apparently being supplied with fel and oil by the Transport Department prior to their leaving the garage. Particulars of these services were recorded an Army Work Tickets, but, in some cases, no signed acknowledgments were obtained from the firms in respect of either the transport supplied or the fuel and oil issued to the vehicles, Efforts were made, at a later date, to obtain payment for the cost of the transport and fuel supplied but did not prove entirely successful as she of the fims how contest the accuracy of the claims made. For the period May to November, 1946, the outstanding charges in respect of petrol and oil issues amounted to £658,075.21, of which charges totalling $355,517.13 are said to be identifiable and recoverable from private films and individuals and Government departments, leaving a balance of $302,558.08 in respect of which the issues are unidentifiable. The matter was reported to the Secretary of State who has recently approved in his Savingram No.724 of the 23rd July, 1948, of the writing off of the midentified issues amounting to $302,558.08 and the identified issues to Government departments amounting to $276,142.53 which were not charged to the Expenditure Heads of the Departments concerned in the accounts for the period 1946/47,
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further amount of $39,996.26 remains to be collected from the commercial firms and the matter is being kept in view.
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