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of money needed, estimated at 9,475 million RN, is taken
 
to be less by a good 800 million RM than in the fiscal
 
year 1939, which is explained by a further curtailing of
 
the means of covering. In this connection it should be
 
remembered firstly that there will be a certain falling
 
off in the collection of taxes and secondly that the war
 
contribution levy is now to be collected for a full fiscal
 
year,                                                                                             .._
 
         If, in the receipts which serve to cover the financial
 
needs of the States end Communes, the amounts for the Reich
 
 tax transfers do not coincide with the sums which
 
 were shown for the Reich as transfers made, attention
 
should be called once more, in this connection, to the
 
various delimitations of territory and tasks. In the
 
financial picture of the States and Communes (Table 7)
 
there are omitted, as already mentioned, the transfers
 
made: by the  Reich to the State of Austria or its remaining
 
administration,  as well as the transfers to the Reich
 
territories formerly belonging to Poland and the Free
 
states of: Danzig. But certain deviations occur elsewhere.
 
They are mostly to be explained from the fact that, with
 
the Reich, figures from the books are given mostly, whereas
 
with the Communes (and from the fiscal year 1939 on, for
 
the States also) figures for cash are given, br estimates
 
based