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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — UNITED KINGDOM
Kingdom for the years ended March 31, 1880, 1890, and the four years ended March 31, 1898 : —
Year ended March 31
IlEVENUE
Estimated
Actual Receipts
More ( + )
in the
into the
or less ( - )
Budgets
Exchequer
than Estimates
£
£
£
1880
81,161,000
79,344,098
-1,816,902
1890
86,150,000
89,304,316
+ 3,154,316
1895
94,175,000
94,683,762
+ 508,762
1896
96,162,000
101,973,829
+ 5,811,829
1897
100,480,000
103,949,885
+ 3,469,885
1898
103,044,000
106,614,004
+ 3,570,004
Expenditure
- Year ended March 31
Budget and
Actual Pay-
More ( + )
Supplementary
ments out of
or less ( - )
Estimates
the Exchequer
than Estimates
£
£
£
1880
84,105,871
82,184,797
-1,921,074
1890
86,723,168
86,083,314
- 639,854
1895
94,537,685
93,918,421
- 619,264
1896
98,498,496
97,764,357
- 734,139
1897
102,324,921
101,476,669
- 848,252
1898
104,892,900
102,935,994
-1,956,906
The following table (derived from the two preceding) shows the differences (surplus or deficit) between revenue and expendi- ture in 1880, 1890, and the last four years : —
Year Ended March 31
Surplus ( + ) or Deficit ( - )
Year Ended March 31
Surplus { + ) or Deficit ( - )
1880 1890 1895
£ -2,840,699 + 3,221,002 + 765,341
1896 1897 1898
£ + 4,209,472 + 2,473,216 + 3,678,010
The Imperial revenue is derived mainly from taxation (under the first seven heads of the following table), which in 1897-98 produced 88, 548,000^., or»83 per cent, of the whole. The re- mainder is subdivided into five heads as below (viii. — xii.).
