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Appendix IV

(Chapter 4: Public Finance and Taxation)

Revenue

Actual

Revenue

HEAD OF REVENUE

for

1953-4

Actual Revenue for 1954-5

Actual Revenue

Estimate

for

1955-6

for

1956-7

1 Duties

2 Rates

74,883,463

78,895,157 85,260,790

83,500,000

37,614,897 39,651,662 49,769,817 50,550,000

3

Internal Revenue

160,461,736 167,918,224 154,045,234 148,500,000

4 Licences, Fines and Forfeiture.

17,456,699 14,886,642 18,389,068 17,258,130

5 Fees of Court or Office

28,055,781 37,382,810 33,041,660 32,630,650

6 Water Revenue

8,853,250 7,820,552 9,376,970 9,058,800

7

Post Office

19,946,543 22,654,032 24,470,773 25,085,000

8 Kowloon-Canton Railway

9 Revenue from Lands, Rents, etc.

10 Miscellaneous Receipts

5,369,489 4,675,784 5,592,150 4,726,000

22,798,707 25,288,125 31,445,353 32,038,500

14,642,635 20,659,313 20,936,550 17,495,000

390,083,200 419,832,301 432,328,365 420,842,080

11

Land Sales

6,058,573

11,919,723 13,673,932 10,005,000

12 Colonial Development and

Welfare Grants

740,193

1,403,080

681,990 4,211,750

13

Loan from United Kingdom

Government

1,297,217 8,035,903 14,878,250

Total Revenue:

396,881,966 434,452,321 454,720,190 449,937,080