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THE BRITISH KMPIRE: — UNITED KINGDOM
IV. Education, Science and Art:
£ U. K. and England :— Board of Education . 14,504,765 British Museum . 204,071
National Galleries, kc. 28,637
Colleges, &c., Grt. Brit
and Int. Ed. (Wales) 314,200 Scientific Investigation,
&c.
Scotland : — Public Education National Galleries
Ireland : — Public Education National Galleiy Science and Art Queen's Colleges, &c.
Total U.K.
125,523 15,177,196
2,489,42f
6,598
2,496,023
1,734,554
3,155
138,591
130,935
2,007,235 19,680,454
V. Foreign and Colonial
Services : £
Diplomatic and Consular 689,040
Colonial . . . 860,754 Telegraphs and Pacific
Cable . . . 39,974
Cyprus (grant-in-aid) . 50,000
Total . . 1,639,768
VI. Nan- Effective and Charitable Servicer :
Old Age Pensions . 12,200,000
Other services . . 811,001
Total VII. Miscellaneous
13,011,001
245,160
VIII. Insurance and Labour Exchanges : National Health Insur. . 2,040,925 Labour Exchanges and Un- employment Insurance 804,037
Grand Total 1912-13 Grand Total 1911-12
2,844,962
49.859,354 46,787.873
Net increase, 1912-13 . 3,071,481
The expenditure for the Revenue Departments in 1912-13 was estimated as follows: Customs and Excise, 2,357, 900Z.; Inland Keveuue, 1,895,830Z. ; Post Office, 23, 808,950Z. Thus the total expenditure for Civil Service and Revenue Departments for the year was estimated at 77,922,034/. against 71,865,718^. for 1911-12.
II. Taxation.
The revenue derived from the most important of direct taxes, that ujion incomes, was as follows in the years stated.
Year ending
Tax
Net Receipt
Year ending
Tax
Net Receij't
March 31
per£
in the Year
March 31
per £
in the Year
£
£
1903
15d.
38, 060,000
1908
12(Z.l
31,8PO,000
1904
lid.
30,500,000
1909
12(«.l
33,709,(100
1905
12d.
31,264,000
1910
14^.^
12,752,000^!
190(5
\2d.
31,295,000
1911
\U-
60,505,000^'-='
1907
12(?.
31,892,000
1912
\u:^
41,316,000-1
1 Earned income, wheie the total income did rot exceed 2,000?. was taxed in 1907-8 and 1908-9 at M. in the £.
2 Earned income, if the total income does not exceed 2,000/., is taxed at the rate of 9(?., and between 2,000i. and 3,000i. at Is., and nnearned income at 14rf. jier £. A super-tax is levied on incomes over 5,000J. a jear, of ('d. per jioiind on amounts by which incomes exceed 3,000/. An abatement of the tax on 10/. of inconie for each cliikl living and under 16 years of age is allowed in the case of ijicomes under 500/.
3 These abnorn)al amounts are due to the delay in passing the Finance Bill iur 1909-10. •1 These amounts are exclusive of the net receii)t of .super-tax. This was as follows : —
1910-11, 2,891,000/.; 1911-12, 3,016,000/.
