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COLONY OF
HONG KONG.
Statement of Revenue in the Year 1949/1950, under
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Heads and Sub-Heads as Compared with the Estimates.
Heads and Sub-heads.
Estimated.
Actual.
Increase.
Brought Forward
$
49,766,300
$
Decrease.
Explanatory Remarks.
¢
88,083,905.82
38,317,605.82
3. INTERNAL REVENUE, -Contd.
Brought Forward
49,375,000
55,831,040,58
7,638,444.92
1,182,404.34
6. Meals and Liquor Tax
2,750,000
7. Stamp Duties
9,400,000
3,931,069.10 12,818,815.22
1,181,069.10 3,418,815.22
More restaurants established.
More property sales largely due to
influx from China.
Total
61,525,000
72,580,924.90
12,238,329.24
1,182,404.34
4.-LICENCES, FINES AND
FORFEITURES.
(A) LICENCES.
1. Air Services
3,500
9,850.76
2. Arms
30,000
53,290.00
6,350.76 23,290.00
3. Auctioneers
1,800
1,800.00
4. Bake Houses
9,000
9,870.00
870.00
5. Banks
600,000
665,000.00
65,000.00
6. Billiard Tables
5,700
3,300.00
2,400.00
7. Boat
250,000
278,393.30
28,393.30
More licences and certificates issued. More licences issued.
More licences issued.
do.
8 tables not renewed until 1950/51. More licences issued.
8. Cafes
5,500
6,940.00
1,440.00
9. Cattle, Goats, and Swine
9,000
17,040.00
8,040.00
10. Chinese Boarding Houses
14,000
26,978.00
12,978.00
T
do. do.
do.
11. Chinese Undertakers
20,000
17,500.00
2,500.00
12. Companies Local, Registers
25,000
39,512.42
14,512.42
13. Dairies
2,000
1,800.00
200.00
14. Dance Halls
7,200
11,050,00
3,850.00
15. Dangerous Goods
30,000
41,460.00
11,460.00
Fewer licences issued.
More applications to keep branch
register than anticipated.
Fewer licences issued.
More temporary licences for extension
hours issued.
More licences issued.
16. Dangerous and Offensive Trades
25,000
28,020.00
3,020.00
do.
17. Dogs
70,000
143,446.00
73,446.00
do.
18. Eating Houses and Restaurants
85,000
101,140.00
16,140.00
do.
19. Emigration Passage Brokers
3,200
4,800
1,600.00
do.
20. Factories
100,000
100,000.00 Tax not implemented.
21. Ferries
414,000
422,400.00
8,400.00
22. Fishing Stakes & Stations
800
347.00
453.00
Decline in use.
23. Food Factories
20,000
27,900.00
7,900.00
More licences issued.
21. Food Preserving Establishments
25,000
24,600.00
400.00
Fewer licences issued.
25. Forestry, N.T.
4,000
8,498.43
4,498.43
26. Game
20,000
39,700.00
19,700.00
27. Hawkers
500,000
740,765.70
240,765.70
28. Hydrocarbon Oils
30,000
23,436.29
6,563.71
29. Junks
80,000
100,176.00
20,176.00
30. Laundries
31, Liquor
5,000 850,000
6,930.00
1,930.00
More licences issued.
Fewer applications for licences. More vessels licensed, stricter super-
sion.
More licences issued.
1,178,028.56
328,028.56
do.
Carried Forward
Carried Forward
3,244,700
111,291,300
4,033,972.46
160,664.830.72
901,789.17
112,516.71
50,555,936.06
1,182,404.34
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