FINANCE
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State Finance. The ordinary and extraordinary revenue and expenditure of Belgium for the years stated are shown in the following table ni thousands of francs : —
Years
1880 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896
Revenue
Expenditure
Ordinary
Extra- ordinary
Total
Ordinary
l.OOOfr. 291,921 340,526 346,346 347,264 352,285 362,600 371,829
l,000fr.
l.ooofr.
02,294
394,215
37,878
378,404
55,601
401,947
66,781
414,045
45,393
397,678
42,589
405,185
23,901
395,730
480,940
l,000fr. 292,009 335,231 338,723 341,004 344,701 353,340 364,819
Special
l,000fr. 90,899 82,663 63,445 64,906 49,829 49,219 45,564
Total
l,000fr. 382,908 417,894 402,168 405,910 394,529 402,559 410,383 437,608
The following table gives the details of the proposed budget for the year 1898 : —
Ordinary Revenue
Francs
Ordinaiy Expenditure
Taxes, direct : —
Property taxes
Personal taxes
Trade licences
Mines . Taxes, indirect : —
Customs
Excise .
Succession duties .
Registration duties
Stamps
Various Tolls :—
Rivers, Canals, &c.
Railways
Telegraphs .
Post Office . Pilotage dues, kc Capitals & revenues: —
Domains, forests, &c.
Unused amortisation fund, securities, national bank,&c. Repayments .
25,456,000
20,085,000
7,400,000
600,000
36,246,632 52,420,297 19,940,000 19,900,000 6,500,000 5,771,000
1,590,000
154,000,000
6,880,000
13,160,020
1,430,000
2,718,000
10,051,900 4,149,749
Interest on public debt and sinking fund Civil list and dota- tions Ministry of Justice . „ Foreign
Affairs . aiinistry of Interior and Public Instruc- tion Ministry of Agricul- ture k Public Works Ministry of Railways, Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones . Ministry of War
, , Finance .
Gendarmerie Repayments, &c. ' Ministry of Industry and Labour
Francs
Total ordinary
revenue . I 388,298,598
Totil onlinary penditure
ex-
114,152,253
4,930,200 21,517,990
2,797,065
26,378,070 21,773,694
116,337,880
48,320,375
19,514,515
4,917,100
1,896,000
2,743,560
385,278,702
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