104 2. Revenue for 1919.

The figures for 1919, which are included in the previous table of revenue returns, are repeated here for convenience of reference :— Provinces— Land Tax— {a) Taxed land ... (&.) Lshur Date tax Animal tax ... Tribute from nomad tribes Traders tax ... Royalties Timber and firewood ... Rent from Government lands and properties Miscellaneous 1919. £E. 42,650 170,100 21,300 148,950 36.100 36,250 128,300 79.100 32.000 76.000 Total Departments and Services— Customs Posts and telegraphs ... Railways and steamers Agriculture and forests Legal Veterinary ... General Central services Other departments and services..

770,750 328,000 118,400 1,278,000 7,100 14,180 25,600 341,500 66,970 Total 2,179,750 Grand total 2,950,500 The following are remarks on some of the items in the above table 3. Provincial Revenue. Land Tax.

The land tax has realised £E. 42,650 against an estimate of £E. 43,900. The deficit is due to arrears outstanding at the end of the year and to remissions.

As regards the “ Ushur ” or tithe, a tax equivalent to 30 per cent, of the value of the crops assessed, the receipts amounted to £E. 170,000, viz., about £E. 41,000 in excess of the estimates, and onl; about £E. 13,000 less than the sum realised in 1918, which was a record year. This was due to the high prices prevailing on which the rates for the collection of the tax were assessed.

Animal Tax.

The receipts derived from the animal tax amounted to £E. 149,000 as compared with a Budget estimate of £E. 139,395 and £E. 141,848 realised in 1918. The excess is due partly to closer and more accurate counting of the animals, and partly to an increase in the rates at which the tax is levied.

Tribute.

The decrease of about £E. 6,600 in the receipts from “ Tribute ” as compared with the amount collected.' in 1918 is due partly to remissions made in Dongola and other provinces affected by the low flood, which resulted in the mortality of animals owing to lack of grazing, and partly to the transfer of certain tribes from taxation by tribute to taxation by animal tax.

Traders Tax. The receipts from the traders tax in 1919 were the highest on record, viz., £E. 36,250 as compared with £E. 26,911 in 1918. This is due to the general expansion of trade, the higher profits made by the trading community, and to the increase of the tax.

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