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 FINANCE

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Year

Direct Taxes

Excise

Indirect Taxes

Customs Duties

1

Guilders

Guilders

Guilders

Guilders


 * 1893

32,351,922

43,208,403

19,938,942

5,840,051

1894

34,907,207

42,989,388

20,222,984

5,992,995

1895

35,162,795

42,859,657

21,414,331

6,787,095

1896

35,577,345

43,849,565

20,036,387

8,447,069

1897

32,998,960

44,800,796

20,075,659

8,588,810

The amount of these taxes per head of the population was, in 1897, in guilders: direct taxes, 6'QQ ; excise, 9*02; indirect taxes, 4"05 ; custom duties, 1-73. Total, 24-58.

The expenditure of the 'Department for the Colonies' entered in the budget estimates only refers to the central administration. There is a separate budget for the great colonial posses -ions in the East Indies, voted as such by the States-General. The iinancial Cbtimates for the year 1899 are distributed between the colonies and the mother country in the following proportions : —

Guilders Administrative and other expenses in the colonics. 116,600,742 Home Government expenditure .... 29,485,202

Total expenditure

Revenues in the mother country ,, colonies ,

146,085, 944

17,075,964 11 5,666,550 132,742,514

In the budget for 1899 the national debt is given as follows : —

Nominal Capital

Annual Interest j

Funded Debt 2^ per cent, debt 3 „ ,, „ of 1895 and 1898 r. " "- railway (to redeem " '-• " [ in 1899)
 * . r debt of appropriated

Total.

Floating debt .... Annuities. . Paper money .... Sinking fund ....

Total debt.

Guilders 626,008,500 517,327,000

294,000 2,719,693

Guilders 15,650,212 15,551,390

4,700 83,312 j

1,146,349,193 15,000,000

31,289,614 1

50,000 262,019

6,228,571

1,161,349,193

37,830,204

The following table shows the interest and sinking fund for the last six

years : —

Year

Interest

Sinking Fund j Year

Interest

Sinking Fund

1898 1897 1896

Guilders 29,852,993 29,935,246 30,629,789

Guilders 2,638,100 1895 2,708,500 1894 1,507,556 ij 1893

Guilders 31,912,910 32,015,837 31,463,972

Guilders 3,275,200 3,032,800 5,185,458