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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [311r] (624/862)
The record is made up of 1 volume (430 folios). It was created in 1944. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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■
II
PUBLIC FINANCE
■ etums, Ue
customs^
x Oilrof^
483
the long land frontiers where collection is difficult. Import duties
may serve two purposes: the protection of home industries and the
raising of revenue. In Iraq only the latter is important. Imports do
not compete with local products, and there is no reason to exclude
any goods for which there is a demand.
Special Budget
(figures in Iraqi dinars)
Revenue
i 934 l 5
^93516
1936/7
1937/8
1938/9
1939/40
Oil royalties .
Advance from petroleum
1,010,304
598,202
599,968
730,731
1 , 977,458
2,014,088
companies
Contribution by Currency
1,000,000
Board ....
60,000
60,000
Foreign Credits Accounts
40,415
Total Revenue .
1,010,304
598,202
599,968
730,731
2 , 037,458
3,114,503
Expenditure
*3-year programme*
Productive capital works
197,732
223,683
2,372,746
2,463,565
(5-year plan)
Productive capital works
428,222
1,037,844
2,179,111
2,232,916
(4-year plan)
Total Expenditure
428,222
1,235,576
2,402,794
2,372,746
2,463,565
2,232,916
To facilitate administration the customs duties were revised at the
end of April 1933. Duties were abolished on all exports except dates,
gold, horses, and liquorice. Most import duties were reduced, and
those on machinery and raw material were abolished; but there were
some increases, those on luxury articles, including silk and artificial
silk, being doubled. The transit tax is very small—one-tenth of one
per cent, ad valorem.
Excise duties are imposed on tobacco, alcohol, petrol and kerosene,
and salt. With the exception of that on salt all these duties have
been increased since the institution of an Iraqi Government. Salt
is a government monopoly and the duty on it has been reduced
during the same period.
Agriculture. The difficulties of assessing land and agriculture for
taxation have already been mentioned. Until 1931 assessment was
by numerous different methods, dependent on the district, on local
custom, and on the nature of the crop. Taxation varied from 10 to
20 per cent, of the gross value of the crop and in exceptional cases
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The volume is titled Iraq and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (London: Naval Intelligence Division, 1944).
The report contains preliminary remarks by the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1942 (John Henry Godfrey) and the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1944 (E G N Rushbrook).
There then follows thirteen chapters:
- I. Introduction.
- II. Geology and description of the land.
- III. Coasts of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
- IV. Climate, vegetation and fauna.
- V. History.
- VI. People.
- VII. Distribution of the people.
- VIII. Administration and public life.
- IX. Public health and disease.
- X. Irrigation, agriculture, and minor industry.
- XI. Currency, finance, commerce and oil.
- XII. Ports and inland towns.
- XIII. Communications.
- Appendices: stratigraphy; meteorological tables; ten historical sites, chronological table; weights and measures; authorship, authorities and maps.
There follows a section listing 105 text figures and maps and a section listing over 200 illustrations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (430 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is divided into a number of chapters, sub-sections whose arrangement is detailed in the contents section (folios 7-13) which includes a section on text-figures and maps, and list of illustrations. The volume consists of front matter pages (xviii), and then a further 682 pages in the original pagination system.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 430; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:253r, 254r, 255r:429v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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