UK cinema payments of entertainments tax
Entertainments tax was introduced in 1916

	£000s			£000s
1917	3,000		1946	41,000
			1947	41,390
1921	11,700		1948	37,974
			1949	38,286
1925	10,200		1950	36,970
1926	5,700		1951	36,428
			1952	38,435
1928	3,000		1953	38,435
1932			1954	38,435
1938	5,600		1955	35,326
1939	5,613		1956	33,556
1940	5,600		1957	34,760

Source: Margaret Dickinson and Sarah Street: Cinema and State (BFI, 1985); Kine Year Books

Cinema statistics index