Exchequer returns show. with week still to go before the end of the third quarter of the financial year, that total ordinary revenue amounts of £469,812,653, compared with £443,578,800 at the corresponding date last year.
A total of £86,211,000 of income tax has been collected out of the £288,150,000 estimated for the whole year, and compared with £73,662,000 at this time a year ago.
Total expenditure, less self-balancing items, is £637,361,814, compared with £579,618,083 at the corresponding date of 1936, while the total floating debt outstanding on December 25 was £983,040,000 compared with £851,310,000 on December 26, 1936, and represented a net increase of £284910000 since March 31—
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