BELGIUM
A. — Budgetary Situation
The Belgian budget is not presented as an entity, but is, for 1925, con-
tained in 18 distinct bills separately presented. These consist of 15 proposals
for the ordinary revenue and expenditure, one for the extraordinary revenue and
expenditure, one for recoverable expenditure according to the Treaty of Ver-
sailles, and one for the administrations of the Navy, Post and Telegraph
Departments. Since 1924 the railways have formed an autonomous institution
and are not included in the state budget.
Year Revenue Expenditure Balance
(in Belgian francs)
1922 0 6,722,623,869: 8,079,677,404 --'41,357,053,535 1
19250... 5,942,776,886 8,185,203,075 — 2,242,426,1891
1924..." 6,696,472,738 7,619,552,898 — 923,080,160 2
1925... Lc a 5,697.725.118 6,470,260,502 2 772.535.384
A detailed account of the budget for the fiscal year 1925 follows :
I. — Ordinary Budget
Revenue Expenditure
A. — Ordinary Revenue : - -
1. Direct contributions, taxes on
land, property, income, auto- :
mobiles, theatres, gambling, ¥. Public debt ..........~...081,968.903,557
mines, etc. .............. 1,240,500,000 2. Civil service, Senate,” Cham-
2. Import duty... Lolo. 584,000,000 4 ’
3. Customs and excise duties. . .. 468,050,000 ber of Representatives, and
4. Eventual revenue due to Bel- Court of Accounts........ 12,348,693
gium on joint account with i Bh fi
Luxemburg thi lo, 1,000,000 3. Ministry of justice ......... 115,640,436
5. Miscellaneous revenue ...... 3,750,000 4. ” Foreign Affairs .. 32,187,950
6. Registration and public domain 7 : ;
Fos ee AY, 243,752,000 5. Interior & Hygiene 47,855,908
7. River, canal, lock and quai 7 A i
ROLLS uh ea es Ts 13,350,000 6 - es and Sciences | 321,499,978
8. Domain, forests, fishing rights, 7 Agriculture ...... 32,783,602
prison production, participa- 8. ” Public Works ... 95,770,806
tion in profit of National ° ol Tadust Labor &
Bank of Belgium, bonus on . ry, La
bank notes circulating in Social Welfare.. 105,519,832
excess of 275 million, div- oy Colunivs Siasiane
idend on stock in Congo 10. salvia 451,
Railway Company, etc. .. 138,952,975 II. ” National Defense 521,439,847
9. Various reimbursements from ;
municipalities, departments 12. Police force '............... 57,424,800
and! provinces .\...l.\. 5 nL 148,715,469 13. Ministry of Finance ........ 175,097,419
B. — Exceptional Revenue : ” E ic Afai 1.600
10. Special tax on war profits, etc. 35,000,000 I: gonomic ars. L051,
11. Profit on sale of German ships 15. Loss and reimbursement. ..... 451,955,200
allotted to Belgium by Spa ) 3
Convention | J. sini GG LE 10,000,000 16. Proposed increase of salaries
12. Miscellaneous reimbursement. . 61,636,000 and pensions .......e000. 210,000,000
C. — Compensation Revenue : A. es
13. Levy on the departmental )
budgets as their contribu- Total ordinary expenditure.... 4,246,621,057
tion to the Public debt... 217,301,044
14. Reimbursement by Germany :
of cost of Belgian army of Note : Of the amount 1,615,672,300, set aside
occupation’ LLnL URE 102,600,000 for administration expenses, 169,137,505,
Total ordinary revenue.... 4,268.007,488 is regarded as extraordinary.
1. Supplementary credits which possibly total more than the total budgetary estimate,
are not included in these figures.
2. To the total expenditure and thus to the deficit should be added supplementary credits
totaling 8,020,494.797 francs.
