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THE BRITISH KMPIRE: — UNITED KINGDOM

IV. Education, Science and Art:

£ U. K. and England :— Board of Education . 14,504,765 British Museum . 204,071

National Galleries, kc. 28,637

Colleges, &c., Grt. Brit

and Int. Ed. (Wales) 314,200 Scientific Investigation,

&c.

Scotland : — Public Education National Galleries

Ireland : — Public Education National Galleiy Science and Art Queen's Colleges, &c.

Total U.K.

125,523 15,177,196

2,489,42f

6,598

2,496,023

1,734,554

3,155

138,591

130,935

2,007,235 19,680,454

V. Foreign and Colonial

Services : £

Diplomatic and Consular 689,040

Colonial . . . 860,754 Telegraphs and Pacific

Cable . . . 39,974

Cyprus (grant-in-aid) . 50,000

Total . . 1,639,768

VI. Nan- Effective and Charitable Servicer :

Old Age Pensions . 12,200,000

Other services . . 811,001

Total VII. Miscellaneous

13,011,001

245,160

VIII. Insurance and Labour Exchanges : National Health Insur. . 2,040,925 Labour Exchanges and Un- employment Insurance 804,037

Grand Total 1912-13 Grand Total 1911-12

2,844,962

49.859,354 46,787.873

Net increase, 1912-13 . 3,071,481

The expenditure for the Revenue Departments in 1912-13 was estimated as follows: Customs and Excise, 2,357, 900Z.; Inland Keveuue, 1,895,830Z. ; Post Office, 23, 808,950Z. Thus the total expenditure for Civil Service and Revenue Departments for the year was estimated at 77,922,034/. against 71,865,718^. for 1911-12.

II. Taxation.

The revenue derived from the most important of direct taxes, that ujion incomes, was as follows in the years stated.

Year ending

Tax

Net Receipt

Year ending

Tax

Net Receij't

March 31

per£

in the Year

March 31

per £

in the Year

£

£

1903

15d.

38, 060,000

1908

12(Z.l

31,8PO,000

1904

lid.

30,500,000

1909

12(«.l

33,709,(100

1905

12d.

31,264,000

1910

14^.^

12,752,000^!

190(5

\2d.

31,295,000

1911

\U-

60,505,000^'-='

1907

12(?.

31,892,000

1912

\u:^

41,316,000-1

1 Earned income, wheie the total income did rot exceed 2,000?. was taxed in 1907-8 and 1908-9 at M. in the £.

2 Earned income, if the total income does not exceed 2,000/., is taxed at the rate of 9(?., and between 2,000i. and 3,000i. at Is., and nnearned income at 14rf. jier £. A super-tax is levied on incomes over 5,000J. a jear, of ('d. per jioiind on amounts by which incomes exceed 3,000/. An abatement of the tax on 10/. of inconie for each cliikl living and under 16 years of age is allowed in the case of ijicomes under 500/.

3 These abnorn)al amounts are due to the delay in passing the Finance Bill iur 1909-10. •1 These amounts are exclusive of the net receii)t of .super-tax. This was as follows : —

1910-11, 2,891,000/.; 1911-12, 3,016,000/.