The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 47

[introduction]

The Inland Revenue of Canada is derived from Excise, Public Works, Culling Timber, Bill Stamps, and Weights and Measures, Gas and Law Stamps. There was a decrease in the revenue from Excise, Culling Timber and Bill Stamps in the Fiscal Year 1876-77 of $610,470, and an increase on Public Works, Weights and Measures, Stamps, &c., of $63,292, leaving a net decrease, as compared with 1875-76, of $547,178. The following table gives a comparative statement of the revenue accrued from these sources for the last five years:

	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877
	$	$	$	$	$
Excise	4,513,194	5,612,582	5,110,353	5,538,277	4,950,624
Public Works	636,798	672,120	558,699	637,026	547,377
Culling Timber	79,767	95,913	89,597	71,953	67,128
Bill Stamps	201,496	209,233	244,592	226,960	208,968
Weights and Measures, Gas and Law Stamps				2,116	55,057
Total	5,481,255	6,589,848	6,003,241	6,376,332	5,829,154

The decrease in the revenue from Excise is principally in the duties collected on spirits and tobacco. On spirits the decrease was $449,041 and on tobacco $145,060. There was also a slight decrease in the revenue from petroleum, attributed, by the Commissioner of Inland Revenue, to the repeal of the duty in February, 1877. The following table taken from the Report of the Commissioner shows the details of the Excise Revenue for five years:—

Articles.	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877
	$	$	$	$	$
Spirits	2,825,141	3,503,365	2,977,221	3,099,893	2,650,852
Malt Liquor	26,598	25,570	29,976	14,188	7,475
Malt	358,332	354,765	351,386	327,709	389,257
Tobacco	1,013,557	1,401.271	1,431,778	1,775,450	1,630,390
Petroleum	237,777	274,439	268,553	285,553	235,329
Manufactures in Bond	33,780	40,006	37,176	27,834	30,054
Seizures	5,049	6,289	5,220	1,675	1,597
Other receipts	12,902	6,877	6,043	5,975	5,670
Total	4,513,196	5,612,582	5,110,353	5,538,277	4,950,624

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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 47

[introduction]