Syria and
Palestine]
Palestine]
PUBLIC FINANCE
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(D) FINANCE
(1) Public Finance
Budget.—For the public finance of Turkey, which
includes that of Syria, see Anatolia, No. 59 of this
series, p. 115. Individually considered, Syria's
financial situation contrasts very favourably with that
of the Empire as a whole, local revenues being con-
siderably in excess of the expenditure, as is seen in the
following figures, taken from La Syrie de demain, by
M. Moutran (1916), and based upon the previous
Budget:—
Revenue. | Expenditure. | |
Frs. | Frs. | |
Aleppo | 20,275,673 | 7,954,573 |
Beirut | 31,919,329 | 8,804,400 |
Damascus | 15,568,401 | 16,902,682 |
Jerusalem | 4,630,015 | 2,373,991 |
Lebanon | 1,100,458 | 1,062,761 |
Total | 73,493,876 | 37,098,407 |
Here expenses exceed receipts in one province only, Damascus, and this small deficit is handsomely repaired by the favourable balances elsewhere, especially in the vilayets of Aleppo and Beirut.
Of the total revenue, the bulk is accounted for by the following principal items:[1]—
Frs. | |
Taxes on land, animals, trades, and in lieu of military and other services | 18,657,600 |
Tithe | 21,019,401 |
- ↑ These figures do not include the Lebanon, which had a different system, but, on the other hand, include Deir ez-Zor, the total revenue of which was only 450,000 frs. more than that of the Lebanon.
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