§ The Inland Revenue requires for its service in the ensuing year £43,750 more than in the current year. But the whole of this increase is due to the intermittent charge† of the triennial valuation of property under Schedules A and B of the Income Tax outside the metropolitan area, which usually brings in additional tax to the extent of £80,000 to £100,000 a-year. The total of the temporary addition from this cause is £44,100, so that the permanent charge is in fact less than that of the current year. A fairer idea of the relative expense of the Department is gained by comparing the charge of 1885–86, the last year of triennial valuation. In that year the total charge was £1,823,157, or £15,528 more than in the ensuing year. The lessened charge of the ensuing year includes £234,044 for Pensions against £212,653 in 1885–86, so that the reduction
| * CUSTOMS. | † INLAND REVENUE. | ||||||
| — | Effective. | Non-Effective. | TOTAL. | — | Effective. | Non-Effective. | TOTAL. |
| £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | ||
| 1882–83 | 855,077 | 155,078 | 1,010,155 | 1882–83 | 1,587,937 | 212,685 | 1,800,622 |
| 1883–84 | 838,830 | 167,955 | 1,006,785 | (Triennial Valuation) | |||
| 1884–85 | 810,240 | 176,711 | 986,951 | 1883–84 | 1,557,772 | 210,594 | 1,768,366 |
| 1884–85 | 1,551,396 | 210,619 | 1,762,015 | ||||
| 1885–86 | 796,125 | 181,608 | 977,733 | 1885–86 | 1,610,504 | 212,653 | 1,823,157 |
| 1886-87 | 772,010 | 184,047 | 956,067 | (Triennial Valuation) | |||
| 1887–88 | 756,020 | 197,228 | 953,248 | 1886–87 | 1,583,227 | 214,279 | 1,797,506 |
| 1887–88 | 1,549,704 | 214,175 | 1,763,878 | ||||
| 1888–89 | 739,645 | 198,275 | 937,920 | 1888–89 | 1,573,585 | 234,044 | 1,807,629 |
§ of effective charge is above £36,000 a-year. This increased pension charge has all been added in the current year, in which extensive reorganisations have taken place, including the adoption of the working day of seven hours; by which the effective staff has been reduced upwards of 200 in number and £18,407 in cost. A large part of the resulting non-effective charge (£13,807) is in this case also paid to pensioners over 60 years of ago who have already earned their retirement.