Of the Gross Receipts of Customs & Excise Duties, viz., £263,303,890 shown above, the following amounts were collected by the three Departments concerned :— The following are the details of the Gross Receipts of Duties, &c., viz., £2,492,069, collected or received on behalf of other Departments and Services : Year. (Ended TABLE 2.-Customs and Excise Revenue: Estimates and Receipts. Budget Estimate of the Amount receivable by the Exchequer. Amount Net Receipts (a). March.) Customs. Excise. Total. Customs. Excise. Total. Customs. Excise. Total. £ £ £ £ £ £ 35,450,000 39,590,000 75,040,000 35,568,581 39,657,957 102,780,000 59,440,000 162,220,000 103,466,180 59,663,051 163,129,231 136,500,000(b) | 276,000,000 (b) 149,360,000 133,663,000 283,023,000 149,553,677 133,781,958 283,335,635 134,003,000 199,782,000 333,785,000 133,850,538 199,962,882 333,813,420 130,052,000 194,291,000 324,343,000 129,140,131 194,214,862 323,354,993 123,043,000 157,275,000 280,318,000 122,772,262 156,960,995 279,733,257 117,882,536 164,736,981 282,619,517 119,958,000 147,970,000 267,928,000 120,004,266 147,726,570 267,730,836 99,344,000 135,128,000 234,472,000 99,831,409 |135,175,402 235,006,811 103,487,000 134,560,000 238,047,000 103,282,108 134,476,334 237,758,442 107,515,000 132,978,000 240,493,000 107,016,170 132,971,485 239,987,655 (a) The difference between the Net Receipts and the Amount paid into the Exchequer each year is due to the difference between the balances at the beginning and end of the year. These balances consist of (1) working balances held by Collectors, (2) remittances in transit, and (3) advances out of revenue to meet expenditure under authority of the Exchequer and Audit Act, 1866, Sec. 10. (b) Estimates as revised in October, 1919, on account of increases in receipts during preceding six months. The original estimates were: Customs, £119,000,000; Excise, £118,500,000; Total, £237,500,000. (c) The figures in ordinary type for 1922-23 show the revenue which was actually collected in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; those in italics show the revenue which was attributable to Great Britain and Northern Ireland after adjustments had been made in respect of duties collected in Great Britain or Northern Ireland but attributable to the Irish Free State, and vice-versa. The payments necessary to complete these adjustments were effected in 1923-24, 1924-25 and 1925-26, as shown in Tables 4 and 6. HEAD OF REVENUE. TABLE 3. Customs and Excise Duties: Summary of Net Receipts. 13,654,614 25,423,575 71,278,301 123,406,257 121,864,865 23,975,642 24,242,156 58,864,148 71,048,435 62,831,328 53,666,526 53,763,715 54,036,746 51,033,606 49,927,645 43,552,785 117,507 173,558 .. 1,152,291 1,409,233 2,235,400 2,912,527 2,750,607 1,586,944 1,432,181 1,280,901 1,263,211 3,051,851 3,033,410 3,368,648 3,752,029 1,004,506 1,000,843 739,840 548,152 16,054,519 17,747,061 16,861,207 17,581,656 11,555,724 11,143,727 10,730,853 5,971,112 2,482,680 2,474,311 1,792,829 1,865,091 1,289,450 1,255,968 1,258,270 669,234 782,277 698,869 659,521 691,440 488,755 482,667 493,905 249,959 28,097,718 42,044,785 30,444,514 36,760,325 40,188,497 38,470,345 38,117,378 20,532,114 281,014 1,053,589 696,200 772,951 840,975 816,346 927,909 730,684 46,292,215 60,871,059 55,531,984 55,208,466 53,395,640 50,831,014 51,882,112 51,912,578 2,027,401 3,397,571 3,050,677 3,223,681 3,012,751 2,982,141 3,121,416 3,295,125 3,344,972 3,578,842 2,221,911 3,000,487 2,559,392 (6)-168,625 3,199,036 5,666,716 1,083,787 3,361,902 Safeguarding of Industries Duties 5,480,950 1,698,068 2,427,537 (e)628,362 288,368 3,121 360,377 4,516,679 1,200,604 (a) Excluding the receipts from "transferred" taxes in Northern Ireland, namely, entertainment and licence duties, other than those on brewers, distillers and tobacco manufacturers. (b) Excess of Repayments. (c) The Minus amounts are due to excess of amounts appropriated in the year over amounts deposited. Free State in respect of attributable revenue for 1922-23 (for details, see Tables 4 and 6). (e) The receipts from Betting Certificates, amounting to £206,860 in 1926-27, are included in "Other Licences." 7,393 8,396 1,065,694 1,332,661 1,369,730 1,273,297 1,498,067 3,921,804 1,104,911 1,580,140 1,095,805 465,351 465,351 467,867 467,379 176,698 38,196 (c)—43,549 (c)-22,045 | (c)-24,067 (d) 2,313,924 (d) 593,048 75,226,538 163,129,231 283,335,635 333,813,420 323,354,993 279,733,257 282,619,517 267,730,836 235,006,811 Note. For alterations, etc., of duties, see Table 125. 4,565,499 4,186,947 4,186,947 4,307,443 4,657,850 486,721 20,000 4,554,028 4,497,600 470,197 (e) 672,958 (d)135,580 61,738 -continued. TABLE 4.-Customs Duties (a): Net Receipts Figures for United Kingdom. † For 1922-23 the figures in ordinary type show the revenue collected in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; those in italics show the revenue attributable to Great Britain and Northern Ireland. For later years the figures refer to Great Britain and Northern Ireland only. (a) I.e., Duties on imported goods or on goods manufactured in bond from imported dutiable materials. For alterations, etc., of duties, see Table 125. (b) The "Other Articles" are shown in Table 5. The minus amounts are due to excess of amounts appropriated in the year over amounts deposited. (c) Excess of Repayments. (d) Includes a deduction of £4,889,962 in respect of net revenue collected in 1922-23 in Great Britain and Northern Ireland but attributable to Irish Free State. () Includes final adjustment of £236 from the Irish Free State in respect of revenue collected there in 1922–23 but attributable to Great Britain and Northern Ireland. |