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Per capita revenues and expenditures, by principal items, years ended March 31, 1942 to 1946

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Per capita revenues and expenditures, by principal items, years ended March 31, 1942 to 1946
  1942 1943 1944 1945 1946
  Revenues
  $
Ordinary revenues          
Tax revenues          
Customs import duties 12.22 10.07 14.02 9.50 10.47
Excise duties 9.45 11.74 11.87 12.54 15.17
Income tax 34.62 72.82 86.58 80.68 75.79
National defence tax 9.15 - - - -
Excess profits tax 11.60 36.79 35.80 28.16 34.07
Sales tax 20.27 21.21 25.46 17.28 26.51
War exchange tax 8.66 8.01 9.93 8.10 3.36
Succession duties tax 0.60 1.12 1.25 1.42 1.74
Gasoline tax 2.12 2.11 2.08 2.45 2.43
Other taxes 8.09 11.10 16.50 17.66 8.82
Total, tax revenues 116.78 174.97 203.49 177.79 178.05
Non-tax revenues          
Post office 3.95 4.14 5.10 5.45 5.58
Return on investments 2.21 3.49 4.03 5.01 5.76
Bullion and coinage 0.41 0.50 0.73 0.38 0.40
Premium, discount and exchange 1.02 0.03 0.18 - -
Other 1.24 1.67 1.09 1.16 1.33
Total, non-tax revenues 8.83 9.83 11.13 12.00 13.07
Total, ordinary revenues 125.61 184.80 214.62 189.79 192.02
Special receipts and other credits 2.12 5.65 16.28 31.95 53.82
Grand total, revenues 127.73 190.45 230.90 221.74 244.84
  Expenditures
  $
Ordinary expenditures          
Agriculture 0.72 0.72 0.74 0.78 0.84
Finance          
Interest on public debt 13.30 15.96 20.27 26.32 33.24
Cost of loan flotations 1.40 1.17 1.61 1.71 1.81
Subsidies to provinces 1.24 1.23 1.21 1.19 1.17
Payments to provinces under Dominion-Provincial taxation agreements 1.81 7,98 7.97 7.70 7.97
Old age pensions1 2.54 2.54 2.54 2.66 *
Coal subsidies and subventions 0.42 0.42 0.18 0.23 0.19
Fisheries 0.14 0.14 0.14 0.18 0.27
Justice (including penitentiaries) 0.44 0.46 0.46 0.47 0.50
Labour (including technical education, unemployment insurance and government annuities) 0.95 1.47 1.56 1.61 1.67
Mines and Resources          
Immigration and Colonization 0.11 0.11 0.11 0.11 0.12
Indian Affairs 0.43 0.42 0.43 0.51 0.36
Mines and Geological Survey 0.10 0.10 0.09 0.10 0.11
National Health and Welfare          
Administration and general expenditures - - - 0.14 0.59
Family allowances - - - - 14.02
Old age pensions1 ** ** ** ** 2.74
National Revenue (including income tax) 1.15 1.29 1.48 1.66 1.84
Pensions, war, military and civil 3.54 3.362 3.262 *** ***
Pensions and National Health 1.21 1.19 1.32 *, *** *, ***
Post office 3.56 3.79 4.05 4.51 4.69
Public Works 1.02 1.02 1.03 1.09 1.32
Royal Canadian Mounted Police 0.48 0.53 0.56 0.59 0.59
Trade and Commerce 0.75 0.60 0.59 0.55 0.60
Transport          
Air service 0.29 0.28 0.30 0.33 0.34
Marine 0.34 0.36 0.38 0.40 0.40
Railways and Canals (including Maritime Freight Rates Act and Railway Grade Crossing Fund) 0.66 0.70 0.77 0.74 0.71
Veterans Affairs - - - 6.69 5.92
Total, ordinary expenditures 38.17 47.52 52.64 63.32 86.28
Total, capital expenditures 0.29 0.28 0.22 0.26 0.37
Total, special expenditures 5.49 2.65 3.13 0.62 1.41
War and demobilization expenditures 114.95 3.15 383.05 364.59 335.26
Government-owned enterprises 0.10 0.10 0.11 0.11 0.11
Other expenditures 2.75 5.57 5.30 3.94 3.91
Grand total, expenditures 161.75 371.41 414.45 432.84 417.34
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1947.