REFINEMENTS OF TAXATION
After outlining the work of social reconstruction in Vienna in the years following the war, Dr. Paul Dengler, of the New Education Fellowship, said at a lecture in Auckland that his audience would be wondering how an impoverished country like Austria could find so much money, states the "New Zealand Herald." "I wondered if you knew anything of taxes," he asked, "but I see from your newspapers that sou do." In Vienna the air was free, but the rest was taxed. Taxes ranged from 7 per cent, to 33 per cent, of income, real estate, . and luxuries. Goods purchased in fashionable shops cost more than the same purchases in other shops; motor-cars and servants were taxed, even meals in a restaurant^ were not exempt. "Only the foolish* or the wealthy could afford to dance at a restaurant." Dr. Dengler snicl: there was a special tax on the pianist and a lax on the dancing that increased as the hour grew later.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 13, 15 July 1937, Page 25
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