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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.
