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AUSTRIA.
The only source of revenue directly apportioned to meet the expenditure for the common affairs of the Empire is that derived from the customs, calculated to produce 7,927,000 florins in the year 1869. Thus the budget estimates of the year summed up : —
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Estimated Kevenue
„ Expenditure ....
Deficit .
Florins
£
7,927,000 89,253,018
792,700 8,925,301
81,326,018
8,132,601
The actual receipts of the year 1869 were reported to the Delega- tions, in the session of 1870, as having been below, and the expen- diture above the estimates.
The budget estimates for 1870 fixed the expenditure for the com- mon affairs of the Empire at 83,249,695 florins, or 8,324,969/., of which amount 24,974,908 florins, or 2,497,490/. was allotted to Hungary. The estimated revenue from customs for the year 1870 was 10,056,000 florins, or 1,005,600/.
Budget for Cisleithan Austria. The financial estimates for 1869, approved by the Reichsrath, were calculated upon a total revenue of 296,284, 176 florins, or 29,628,417/., for the year, and a total expenditure of 299,326,671 florins, or 29,932,667/., leaving a deficit of 3,042,495 florins, or 304,249/. The details of the estimated gross revenue for the year 1869 were as follows: —
Direct taxes
Florins
£
75,884,001
7,588,400
43,184,076
4,318,407
Customs' duties .....
12.500,000
1,250,000
Salt monopoly .....
19,562.327
1,956,232
Tobacco monopoly .....
43,158,066
4,315,806
11,747,230
1,174,723
Judicial fees ......
19,397.075
1,939,707
State lottery ......
14,117,681
1,411,768
Tolls
2,603,688
260,368
State domains
5,467,701
546,770
Mines and mint .....
9,395,918
939,591
Post and telegraphs ....
12,212,500
1,221,250
Sale of State property ....
3,000,000
300,000
Funds of the Government ' Central Bank '
4,200,000
420,000
Funds of the public debt commission
5,700,000
570,000
Miscellaneous receipts ....
4,153.913
415,391
Surplus of former loans .... Total estimated revenue of 1869 .
10,000,000
1,000,000
296,284,176
29,628,417 1
