FINANCE
815
Year
Direct Taxes
Excise
Indirect Taxes
Customs Duties
1
Guilders
Guilders
Guilders
Guilders
- 1893
32,351,922
43,208,403
19,938,942
5,840,051
1894
34,907,207
42,989,388
20,222,984
5,992,995
1895
35,162,795
42,859,657
21,414,331
6,787,095
1896
35,577,345
43,849,565
20,036,387
8,447,069
1897
32,998,960
44,800,796
20,075,659
8,588,810
The amount of these taxes per head of the population was, in 1897, in guilders: direct taxes, 6'QQ ; excise, 9*02; indirect taxes, 4"05 ; custom duties, 1-73. Total, 24-58.
The expenditure of the 'Department for the Colonies' entered in the budget estimates only refers to the central administration. There is a separate budget for the great colonial posses -ions in the East Indies, voted as such by the States-General. The iinancial Cbtimates for the year 1899 are distributed between the colonies and the mother country in the following proportions : —
Guilders Administrative and other expenses in the colonics . 116,600,742 Home Government expenditure .... 29,485,202
Total expenditure
Revenues in the mother country ,, colonies ,
146,085, 944
17,075,964 11 5,666,550 132,742,514
In the budget for 1899 the national debt is given as follows : —
Nominal Capital
Annual Interest j
Funded Debt 2^ per cent, debt 3 „ ,, „ of 1895 and 1898
- . r debt of appropriated
r. " "- railway (to redeem " '-• " [ in 1899)
Total.
Floating debt .... Annuities . . Paper money .... Sinking fund ....
Total debt .
Guilders 626,008,500 517,327,000
294,000 2,719,693
Guilders 15,650,212 15,551,390
4,700 83,312 j
1,146,349,193 15,000,000
31,289,614 1
50,000 262,019
6,228,571
1,161,349,193
37,830,204
The following table shows the interest and sinking fund for the last six
years : —
Year
Interest
Sinking Fund j Year
Interest
Sinking Fund
1898 1897 1896
Guilders 29,852,993 29,935,246 30,629,789
Guilders 2,638,100 1895 2,708,500 1894 1,507,556 ij 1893
Guilders 31,912,910 32,015,837 31,463,972
Guilders 3,275,200 3,032,800 5,185,458
