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Sir, —We rent-payers pay, in most cases, four times as much as the ratepayers, so I am definitely against a citi-
zen’s tax. My suggestion is: let the grasping landlords who charge exorbitant rents pay more rates and lower the rates of the poorer ones. If some do not pay rates they pay unreasonable rents. If rates have gone up 100 per cent, rents have gone up 200 per cent. There are enough taxes to pay now without any more. I wonder what other novelty tax will be suggested. Who helps the rent-payer?— Yours, etc., FAIRNESS. October 12, 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30880, 13 October 1965, Page 18
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