TAXATION

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The gross amount of income brought under the review of the Inland Revenue Department in the year ended April 5, 1911, in the United Kingdom, was 1,045,833,775l. ; in 1896 it was 677,769,850l. Of the amount for 1910-11 the share of England was 909,959,166l. ; of Scotland, 95,215,223l. ; of Ireland, 40,659,386l. (Owing to the delay in passing the 1909 Finance Bill, these figures are not quite normal). The gross income in 1910-11 was distributed as follows : —

£

Profits from the ownership of Lands 52.294,614

» „ Houses 222,106]095

5) )) Other property . . . , 1,422,204

Profits from the occupation of lands 17,438,960

,, British and other Government securities . . . 49,552,418 Profits from businesses, concerns, professions, employments (except those of a public nature), and certain interest . , . 583,312,0691 Salaries of Government, orporation, and Public Company officials 119,697,415

Total 1,045,833,775

The gross income from land and houses in 1910-11 was distributed as follows : —

— England

Scotland

Ireland

£

9,693,841 5,276,220

United Kingdom

Land . . . 36,843,606 Houses . . . 196,195,736

£

5,757,167 20,761,345

£

52,294,614 222,233,301

In accordance with various Acts passed between 1888 and 1911, there are paid out of the Consolidated Fmurto the Local Taxation Accounts of England, Scotland and Ireland, sums equivalent to the proceeds of certain excise licence duties, part of the beer and spirit duties, and part of the probate and estate duties. Certain other grants are also payable. The payments on account of the beer and spirit duties, the licence duties on the sale of intoxicating liquors, and (in Scotland) on account of the carriage licence duties, are now fixed at the amounts payable out of the Consolidated Fund for 1908-09, The payments in respect of other licence duties, and those in respect of the probate and estate duties, depend on the current yield of these duties.

The payments actually made to the Local Taxation Accounts in 1911-12 are given as follows : —

—

On account of beer and spirit duties

On account of licence duties

On account of estate duties

£

3,766,905 517,780 281,723

4,566,408

Other grants, &c.

Total

Payments : England . Scotland . Ireland .

£

1.107,260 152,248 124,567

2,080,954 405,830 213,363

£

40,000

98,161

847,608

£

6,995,119 1,174,019 1,467,261

Total payments

1,384,075

2,700,147

985,769

9,686,399

1 Included in this amount are the gross profits from railways in the United Kingdom, 1010-11, 43,438,601L; mines and quarries, 20,557, 344J.; gasworks, 8,115,579/,; waterworks,

6,130,521^.; canals, docks, &c., 4,171,891/.; ironworks, 3,233,472/.