| (1) Local Taxation Account | £78,000 | |
| Income from — | (2) Irish Church Fund | £70,000 |
| (3) Interest on Capital sum of | £200,000. |
Also (in 1909-10):
| From Ireland Development Fund | £7,000 |
| Under an Act of 1902 | £5,000 |
[132] The amount voted for Public Works in 1910-11 was £259,848 [see "Civil Service Estimates" for 1911-12 (No. 63—1911)]; the amount spent, according to Return No. 220, £215,000.
[133] Under the heads of Excise, the principal deduction is in Spirits (£1,793,000 in 1910-11) and Beer (£309,000 in 1910-11).
The items of Irish tax revenue in which the Treasury make no adjustment are: Excise Licenses (£356,000 in 1910-11); Club Duty (£2,000 in 1910-11); "other items" (£10,000 in 1910-11); Cards and Patent Medicines (£10,000 in 1910-11); "Estate, etc., Duties" (£1,144,000 in 1910-11); Income Tax (Schedules A and B) (£694,000 in 1910-11—abnormally large figure owing to non-collection in previous year); Land Value Duties (£1,000 in 1910-11).
All the heads of Customs revenue are subject to adjustment, though the total result is only a small deduction from Ireland (£126,000 in 1910-11). In all but two the adjustment is in favour of Ireland. The two exceptions are "Foreign Spirits," where a deduction of £25,000 is made in 1910-11, and Tobacco, where a deduction of £620,000 is made in 1910-11.
[134] Income Tax, Schedules C and D (dividends from Government Stocks, public companies, foreign dividends, etc.). The Treasury estimate (as stated in a side-note to the Return) is based on statistics of Estate Duty for the five years ending 1908. But what light can Estate Duty throw on (for example) the dividends collected at the source from British or foreign securities held by Irish banks? Schedule C deals with "Government Stocks, etc.," Schedule D with "Public Companies, Foreign Dividends, etc.," but in the adjustment for "true" revenue no distinction is made between them. Now the Banking Statistics (Ireland) of 1910 show that dividends were payable at the Bank of Ireland on £38,732,000 of Government securities, and that, in addition, a debt bearing interest was due to the Bank from the Government of 2½ millions. Income Tax on these items alone would be £65,000, less rebates; but the whole of Schedule C, which includes Foreign and Colonial Government Stocks, is given in 1909-10 as only £30,000.
No attempt is made to credit Ireland with a share of the profits made by English and Scottish companies through business done in Ireland.
The only reliable items in Income Tax are those of A and B (Land, Houses, and Occupation of Land), where in 1908-09 Ireland contributed about 6 per cent. of the total; under other heads, according to the Treasury, only 3.5 per cent. The writer estimates the true contribution as several hundred thousand pounds more.