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property or income. The tax is assessed by municipal boards of
assessment. The direct taxes in question yielded, in 1892, a revenue
of kr. 19,519,438, of which the towns’ share was kr. 9,069,202
and that of the rural districts kr. 10,450,236. The taxes assessed
in 1895 were kr. 11,117,887 in the towns, and in the rural districts
kr. 11,734,472, total, kr. 22,852,359, and they were distributed as
follows:

	per inhabitant	per taxpayer	per 100 kr. of estimated personal property	per 100 kr. of estimated income	per 100 kr. of taxable income
	kr.	kr.	kr.	kr.	kr.
In the towns ...... .	23.28	101.13	1.71	6.80	14.25
In the rural districts . . . .	7.70	27.60	1.13	5.95	12.92

The other taxes and rates paid to the municipalities are:
license fee for the sale and retailing of ardent spirits, wine and
beer; license fees paid by different trades, dog tax, certain
ecclesiastical dues and, for the towns especially, not including certain
unimportant contributions, an additional tax of up to 1 % of all
customs receipts levied upon goods imported into the town, tonnage
dues, paid by vessels loading or discharging in port, wharf dues, etc.
The municipalities, on the other hand, do not collect any tax on
consumption. These taxes and rates, in the year 1892, yielded a
total amount of kr. 2,119,714 (kr. 1,756,334 being collected in the
towns, and kr. 363,380 in the rural districts) and they represented
9.80 % of the aggregate amount of taxation, the remaining 90.20 %
being represented by the direct taxes on personal property, income
and real estate.

The assets of the municipalities, which chiefly consist of real
estate, and to a smaller extent of outstanding money and other
assets, were, at the end of:

Years	Towns	Rural districts	Total
	kr.	kr.	kr.
1884 ..............	54,474,300	38,750,742	93,225,042
1892 ..............	72,490,432	46,414,065	118,934,497
1895 ..............	82,037,220	49,542,094	131,579,314

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