Estimates-1949 — Page 9

REVENUE

DETAILS OF REVENUE

Estimate 1947-48

Estimate 1948-49

$

€

1.-DUTIES.

Import duty on hydrocarbon oils

3,000,000

4,000,000 (1)

Import duty on liquor

6,000,000

5,500,000

(54)

Import duty on perfumed spirits

200,000

200,000

Import duty on tobacco

23,000,000

25,000,000

(2)

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

Assessed taxes (Rates), Kowloon

Assessed taxes (Rates), New Territories

Assessed taxes (Rates), New Territories, South

Total

3.—INTERNAL REVENUE.

Bets and sweeps tax

Dance halls tax

Earnings and profits tax

Entertainment tax

Estate duty

Meals and liquor tax

Stamp duties

Total

4.-LICENCES, FINES, AND FORFEITURES.

A.-LICENCES.

4,350,000

7,500,000

(4)

2,150,000

3,500,000

(4)

6,000

15,000

(4) (5) (6)

4,000

(7)

$

6,510,000

11,015,000

1,250,000

2,000,000

(8)

200,000

400,000

(9)

16,000,000

40,000,000

(10)

3,000,000

3,500,000

(11)

2,500,000

2,000,000 (12)

3,000,000

2,750,000 (13)

4,000,000

7,500,000 (14)

29,950,000

58,150,000

Air services

1,200

2,400

(15)

Arms

13,000

45,000

(15)

Auctioneers

1,800

1,800

Bakehouses

8,300

(16)

Banks

600,000

(16)

Billiard tables

5,400

5,000

(12)

Boats

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

1,200

Ferries

434,000

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

50,000

60,000

(15)

Laundries

4.300

(16)

Liquor

Marine store dealers

Marriage

Massage

Milk shops

Miscellaneous

Money changers

500,000

800,000

(15)

25,000

40,000 (15)

8,000

20,000

(2)

2,000

2,200 (15)

2,400

(16)

2,000

3,500 (20)

90,000

34,000

(12)