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East India: Accounts and Estimates. 1918-1919. Explanatory Memorandum by the Under Secretary of State for India Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty

1918

Office and Telegraphs) and from the sale of Opium and the receipts of certain spending departments ; while the figures of Gross Expenditure include refunds and assignments the interest charges of railways the working expenses and interest charges of other commercial undertakings and the cost of cultivation and manufacture of opium This method of compiling the figures causes the revenue availa [...] 2 6 6 3 0.3 2 10.9 If the payment of Land Revenue be added the average becomes 4 2. 9 4 8.1 4 7. 7 For the purpose of calculating the burden of taxation the figures of population in the three years under review have been based on the Census of March 1911 an annual increase of population at the rate of per cent. [...] on the mean of the capital expenditure at the beginning and the end of the year. [...] The liabilities created by the purchases have not yet been fully discharged partly because in the case of some lines a portion of the amount due to the Companies was retained by the Secretary of State and treated as capital deposited with him by the Companies for the purpose of new working contracts and partly because in all cases of purchase by annuity the period for which the annuity is payabl [...] The Budget provides for an expansion of the area cultivated in the United Provinces and in the case of the Central Indian States for final payments on account of the crop of 1917-18 and for advances in respect - oultivation in 1918.
government politics public policy
Pages
32
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.141613
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Frontmatter
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Memorandam by the Under Secretary of State for India
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Appendix I
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Appendix II
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