India, its administration & progress / Sir John Strachey.

  • John Strachey
Date:
1903
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Credit: India, its administration & progress / Sir John Strachey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sources of Revenue. Gross revenue derived from sources other than taxation Land revenue . Opium .... Forests .... Tributes from Native States Interest .... Post Office and Telegraph . Mint .... Receipts by civil depart- ments and miscellaneous Railways .... Irrigation works Other public works . Receipts by military depart- ments . Gross revenue Salt Stamps Excise Provincial rates derived from\ ~ , \ Customs taxation . . , I Assessed taxes ' Registration Total gross revenue Receipts, 1900-01, £ 17.503.000 5.102.000 1.298.000 578.000 651.000 2.253.000 3.173.000 1.773.000 18.294.000 2.556.000 458.000 817.000 5.967.000 3.343.000 3.937.000 2.563.000 3.372.000 1.322.000 313.000 54,456,000 20,816,000 75,272,000 Many of these receipts do not represent sources of net revenue. In the Indian accounts the gross receipts in everv branch of the administration are entered, whether net revenue is yielded or not. For example, the Government lends money to Native States and to various public bodies, and receives from them payments of interest; these are shown among the gross receipts ; but on the other side of the account there is an entry for interest on the public debt. Until not long ago the income received from railways and irrigation works was exceeded by the expenditure on those classes of works. Under other heads, representing real sources of net revenue, the expenses of collection are shown on the
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