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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — UNITED KINGDOM

The following statement shows for the year ended March 31, 1912, the net amount estimated to be contributed by England. Scotland, and Ireland, to the revenue expenditure on English, Scottish, and Irish services : —

England

Scotland

Ireland

From other Sources

Total

Net Revenue as contributed :—

£

£

£

£

£

Customs ....

26,926,000

3,463,000

3,207,000

— 33,596,000

Excise

29,738,000

5,164.000

3,348,000

— 38,250,000

Estate, (fee. duties

21,251,000

2,684,000

930,000

311,000 25,182,000

Stamps ....

8,530,000

644,000

353,000

37,000 9,564,000

Land tax ....

716,000

32,000

—

— 748,000

House duty ....

1,980,000

130,000

—

—

2,110,000

Income tax ....

38,421,000

3,949,000

1,504,000

460,000

44,334,000

Land value duties

419,000

74,000

1,000

—

494,000

Total revenue from taxes

127,981,000

16,140,000

9,349,000

808,000

154,278,000

Postal service

16,821,000

1,808,000

947,000

19,576,000

Telegraph service

2.618,000

286,500

197,500

—

3,102,000

Telephone service

2,558,500

313,000

62,000

—

2,933,500

Crown lands

484,500

22,500

22,500

—

529,500

Receipts from Suez Canal

Shares and Sundry Loans

—

—

—

1,281,500

1,281,500

Miscellaneous?

887,500

73,000

110,000

1,527,500

2,548,000

Total non-tax revenue

23,319,500

2,503,000

1,339,000

2,809,000

29,970,500

Aggregate revenue.

151,300,500

18,643,000

10,688,000

3,617,000

184,248,500

Expenditure (Exchequer

Issues) : —

Debt, Army and Navy.

—

—

—

95,222,000

95,222,000

Civil Government Charges :

(o) On Consolidated Fund :

(1) Civil Lif't and Miscel-

laneous charges

354,000

149,500

135,500

839,000

1,478,000

(2) Development of road

improvement funds

—

—

—

1,710,000

1,710,000

(3) Payments to local tax-

ation accounts, &c.

6,995,000

1,174,000

1,467,000

—

9,636,000

(6) Voted ....

28,651,500

4,455,000

8,197,000

4,697,500

46,001,000

Total Civil Government

charges ....

36,000,500

5,778,500

9,799,500

7,246,500

58,825,000

Customs and Excise and

Inland Revenue

3,189,000

493,000

269,000

—

3,951,000

Post Office services

16,439,000

2,040,000

1,465,000

603,000

20,547,000

Total expenditure.

55,628,500

8,311,500

11,533,500

103,071,500

178545,000

III. National Debt.

The expenditure on account of National Debt is now nearly six times the amount paid in 1775, at the beginning of the War of Independence of the United States. The total charge for interest and management was then only a little over 4^ millions sterling ; but at the end of the war it had risen to 9^ millions. The twenty-two years' warfare with France, from 1793 to 1815, added 23 millions sterling to the annual charge of the debt, making it over 32^ millions, decreased by slightly more than a million in 1817, in the year of consolidation of the English and Irish exchequers. Since this date, the aggregate gross liabilities of the State have on the whole been steadily decreasing, excepting for the years of the Russian and the South African wars. In 1854 the gross liabilities stood at 802 millions, and in 1857 at over 837 millions. In 1899 they had decreased to 635 millions, but in 1903 amounted to 798 millions ; in 1912 they stood at 725 millions.