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1.5 billion RM, might not quite reach that figure in the
 
fiscal year 1940, according to later calculations. We
 
can count on a yield of 1.4 billion RM.
 
     According to the experience of the last two fiscal
 
years, productive outlays and outlays under the "other
 
general budget revenue" amounting to some 600 to 900
 
million RM should be set off against the "other general
 
budget revenue", that is the earned revenue and other
 
general means of covering, which in the fiscal year 1940
 
should bring in approximately 1.3 billion RM (with the
 
Reich Railways contribution), according to the preliminary
 
estimate of the Reich Ministry of Finance of the end of
 
March. Thus the net income from the earned revenue and
 
the other general means of covering that is left for the
 
Reich will hardly be much more in the fiscal year 1940
 
than 1/2 billion RM.
 
     Of the additional amount needed by the Reich in the
 
fiscal year 1940, which was mentioned above as 41 to 42
 
billion RM, some 21 to 23 billion RM ought therefore to
 
be covered by general means of covering, that is, through
 
the Reich's share in measures of taxation and customs,
 
through the war contribution of the States and Communes
 
and through net revenue from the earned revenue and from
 
the other general means of covering. The deficit of the