932

GERMAN EMPIRE: — PRUSSIA

Finance.

Effective, ordinary and extraordinary revenue and expenditure for years ending March 31 following the year indicated in the table (20 marks = £1 ) :—

Year

Revenue

Expenditure | Year

Revenue

1905 3,400,248,206

190G 3,806,769,083

1907 4,053,702,411

Marks 3,137,467,213 3,534,926,305 3,797,817,024

1908 1909 1910

Marks 4,151,150,120 4,408,102,407 4,529,745,554

Expenditure

Marks 3,958,126,488 4,392,375,416 4,531,155,108

Budget estimates for years ending March 31 :—

Heads of Receipts and Expenditure

Ministry of Agriculture .

,, Finance .

,, Commerce, &c.

,, Public works .

Dotations and financial

administration State administration (Jus- tice, &c.).

Total ordinary . Extraordinary .

Total . . . .

Revenue

1911-12

1912-13

Marks

161,214,504

689,590,400

284,889,390

2,181,784,000

473,628,928

244,349,527

Marks 159,994,004 714,893,310 290,073,320 ,331,053,000

507,495,985

260,336,831

4,035,456,749 49,858,000

4,085,314,749 (204,265, 737Z.)

Exi^enditure

1911-12

1910-11

Marks

70,646,120

223,344,216

267,675,940

1,847,742,000

642,556,614

819,349,606

Marks

72,355,180

225,054,183

267,427,097

1,984,407,000

671,956,059

852,035,381

4,263,846,450 37,395,800

4,301,242,250 (215,062,113L)

3,871,314,496 214,000,253

4,085,314,749 (204,265,737^)

4,073,234,900 228,007,350

4,301,242,250 (215,062,1131.)

The total expenditure amounted (1911 ) to 51. Is. 2d. per head ol population. The direct taxes amounted almost to 9s. 9d. per head. Since April 1, isy&, only the income tax, a new supplementary tax ( Vermogenssteuer), and the tax " vom Gewerbebetriebe im Umherziehen " are direct State-taxes; the land- tax, the house-tax, and the trading-tax are received by the communes

The expenditure for the army and navy is not entered m the budget oi Prussia, but forms part of the budget of the Empire.

Public debt in 1911 and 1912 :—

1911

1912

National debt bearing interest : Consolidated debt at 4 per cent.

,, ,, 3i per cent.

,, ,, s'per cent.

Treasury bonds .... State railway debt Debt of provinces annexed in 1866

Total national debt

Marks

1,050,000,000

6,203,878,750

1,569,957,700

610,000,000

94,891,503

2,949,243

0,531,677,196 (476,583,859?.)

Marks

1,102,293,000

6,090,675,900

1,501,296,150

640,000,000

91,706,289

2,902,706

9,428,874,045 (471,443,702/.)

The sinking fund of the railway debt in 1912 amounted to 159,261/. and of the annexed provinces' debt to 2,327/. The charges for interest, amortisation, and management of the debt amounted to 20,517, 457Z. m the financial year 1912. The debt amounts to 11/. 17s. Bd. per head of population,

and the annual charge to 8s. 6d. per head.