1102 NETHERLANDS
Budget voted for the years 1920 and estimates for 1921 were as follows: —
Brandies of Ex- penditure
1920
1921
Sources of Revenue
1920
1921
Guilders
Guilders
Direct taxes : —
Guilders
Guilders
Civil list
900,000
900,000
Land tax .
16,950,000
17,250.000
Legislative body
Personal .
17,570,000
19,780,000
and Royal cabinet
1,6112,697
1,862,406
Tax on capital .
10,800,000
12,500,000
Department of Fo-
Tax on incomes
reign Affairs
4,060,396
4,763,775
from trades, pro-
Department of Jus-
fessions, Ac. .
63,000,000
74,000,000
tice
36,805,769
38,590,346
Tax on dividends
10,000,000
13,500,000
Department of In-
Excise duties
84,300,000
106,500,000
terior .
11,290,674
15,962,161
Indirect taxes
74,200,000
104,200,000
Department of In-
Import duties
27,000,000
47,000,000
struction, etc
80,377,44
102,380,906
Tax on gold & silver
800,000
1,000,000
Department of Ma-
Domains
2,931,000
3,263,000
rine
47,907,029
52,167,592
Post office
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Department of Fi-
Telegraph service .
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nance .
182,362,778
194,532,415
State lottery .
658,000
658,000
Department of War
49,756,438
73,901,075
Pilot dues
1,000,000
2,000,000
Department of Pub-
Tax on mines
200,000
500,000
lic Works, etc.
53,734,743
63,189,842
State railways
4,249,000
4,249,000
Department of
Part paid by the
Agriculture, etc.
56,580,189
93,879,607
East Indies in the
Department of
interest and sink-
Labour .
98,208,459
75,489,610
ing fund of public debt .
2,145,000
2,047,000
Department of Colo-
nies
4,409,469
6,028,6S0
Share in the profits
Public Debt .
127,107,386
170,249,580
of the Bank of
Unforeseen expen-
the Netherlands
4,48ii,000
9,480,000
diture .
50,000
50,000
State mines .
41.736,000
66,050,000
Misc. receipts Total revenue ! .
47,347,000
68,174,000
Total expenditure
755,243,469
893,950,004
409,508,000
552.151,000
(62,933,622*.)
(74,495,833*.)
(34,130,660/ )
(46,012,583* )
1 Exclusive of tax on war profits and defence taxes.
The amount of the chief taxes per head of the population was, in 1919 97 "69 guilders.
The expenditure of the 'Department for the Colonies' entered in the budget estimates only refers to the central administration. There is a separate budget for the great colonial possessions in the East Indies, voted as such hy the States-General. The financial estimates for the year 1921 are distributed between the colonies and the mother country in the following proportions : —
Expenditure in the colonies Home Government expendi- ture
Total expenditure .
Guilders 600,666,322
21 S, 040,112
819,312,464 (68,276,038*.)
Revenues in the mother
countTy " . Revenues in the colonies .
Total revenue
Guilders
3S,824,170 711,366,986
750,191,156 (62,515,9281,
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