GERMANY'S NEW TAXES.
TO PAY FOR REPARATION. A LEVY ON CAPITAL. iKeceived 11 a.m.) BERLIN, August 7. -The new taxation to reeet reparations includes increases of sugar from 14 to 100 marks per 100 kilograms, and of spirits from t>oo to 4,00-0 marks per hectolitre. Taxes on beer and lighting are quadrupled, and on matches and mineral waters are doubled. Duties on bananas, dates, tea, coffee, cocoa, spices, and other luxuries are increased, while new taxes are imposed on motor cars, insurance businesses, and company profits, also a levy on capital called the national emergency sacrifice. Bookmaking will Ifc legalised and taxed. (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 187, 8 August 1921, Page 5
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