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RUSSIA

The following table gives the total actual ordinary and extraordinary revenue and expenditure for each of the years 1886-97, in paper roubles, according to a report published by the Control of the Empire in the Official Messenger in December, 1898.

j

Onlinary

1 Extiaordinarjf ,

Year

Balance

1

Revenue

Expenditure

Revenue

Expenditure \

P:il>er Roubles

Paper Roubles

Paper Roubles

Paper Roubles

Paper Roubles

1888

873,560,748

836,992,477

+ 36,568,271

54,662,834

69,231,493

1889

914,526,821

868,824,115

+ 45,702,706

53,161,540

80,456,102

1890

933,379,144

914,789,775

+ 18,589,369

94,858,076

123,901,207

1891

890,545,476

925,355,708

-34,810,232

29,513,486

178,377,328

1892

964,687,095

952,575,764

+ 12,111,331

189,617,408

166,759,310!

1893^

1,031,489,740

996,392,639

+ 35,097,101

160,523,630

47,702,806

1894

1,145,352,364

1,045,512,088

+ 99,840,276

75,226,335

101,423,380

1895

1,244,362,202

1,129,439,236

+ 114,922,966

153,068,740

366,634,470

1896

1,368,719,351

1,229,044,280

+ 139,675,071

43,500,457

255,308,655

1897

1,416,386,096

1,299,649,313

+ 116,736,783

42,591,539

194,948,911

1 Famine Yeai*.

This table diifers from the corresponding tables issued in previous years (1887-94) by the State Control, and given in the previous issues of this Yeah Book (with the exception of last two years) in the following: (1) All revenue which was commonly calculated in the budget estimates with a varying value of the paper rouble is now calculated at a uniform value of 1 rouble 50c. paper = 1 rouble in gold, and 1 rouble 50c. in silver; and (2) various items which were differently classed in former estimates, some of them in the ordinary and some others in the extraordinary budget, are classed, for all the ten years, according to the new classification adopted on June 4, 1894. Consequently in the table of ordinary expenditure new items have been introduced (railways, re-armament of the army and navy), which formerly were comprised in the extraordinary budget, hut now are included in the ordinary ex})enditure.

The increase of revenue in ten years, 542,800,000 roubles (or 62 ])er cent.) is chiefly due to an increase in the revenue from new railways bought by the State (217,693,000), which is absorbed by the costs of exploitation and the pay- ments ou obligations. Another source of increase (77,200,000) was in the increased import duties, a thinl an increased excise on spirits (52,400,000), as also on tobacco, na})htha, sugar, and nuitches (altogether 80,200,000); and the remainder is due to an increase of direct taxes. State's domains, &c.

The actual ordinary revenue and expenditure for the last five years, as re- vised by the State's Control, are given as follows in the Memoir i)reseuted by the Control to the Council of the State in December, 1898, in thousands of roubles. They also are drawn in accordance with the law of June 4, 1894, and with the above-mentioned uniform value of the paper rouble.