WHO PAYS ?

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 556, 10 July 1909, Page 5

WHO PAYS ?

THE BIG NAVY BUDGET IN GERMANY., TAXES ON COMMERCE. THE AGRARIANS COME OFF BEST. . (By. Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) • (Reo. July 9, 10.30 p.m.) Berlin, July 9. In connection with tho Gcnnan Imperial finance' proposals—which aim' at providing new taxation equal to £25,000,000 p6r • annum, tho taxes for which caused a breaoli in tho ''Conservative-Liberal Bloc—a: : compromise has been arranged which indicates that the Agrarians and Protectionists'have retained a tight grip/on tho machinery of taxation. v.-y Under the compromise tho required £25,000,000 per: annnm will bo raised inthe following proportions from'tho 6evoral ( groups of tares; . Duties on ' boer, spirits, . tobacco, • . m&tchea, lighting ' apparatus,- • ; wine, and coffco .... .£10,000,000 A tax on railway , tickets , main- ■■■ tcnance. of the sugar tax, and , /increase of, the matrionlar con- ; ; '■. tributions. ....i.. £1,000,000 ■'Duties on various articles im- 1 port, on stocks and shares, and . • on finanoial transactions ....... .£5,000,000 V Total v i1i25,000,000 ' The' matricular contributions (i.e. . contributions by States to tho Federal Government, assessed according to population at a i rate par head fixed annually by the Imperial Budget) will bo increased to 80 pfenniqe (about lOd.) per head of population, unoonditionally. ' . CHANCELLOR AND KAISER.' (Rec. July 10, 1 a.m.) Berlin, t July '9.-. Prior to leaving on his 1 northern . oruiso— which* 1 had been postponed owing to the financial deadlock—tho Kaiser will grant a farowoW andienoe to the Imperial, Chancellor, Princo Bulow. [The position of Prince Bulow, asrlmporial Chancellor was recently rendered unstable by the finanoial dissensions in tho 8100. • It was cabled on June 291 The-"North Gorman Gazette" states that tho Chancellor, Prince 8u-.10w,-.has-irrevocably resolved to resign immediately after the •question' of finance" roform is settled, ' Tho. ' Frankfurter ' Zoitung" declares that Prince -Billow, declines ,to descend ' to; tho position of business manager 'of the Conservative" party (formerly ithe principal constituent of the. Bloc); which has' knowingly, subjected him >to personal and political . defeat,] - : "ACCORDING TO AGRARIAN LIKING." ■ Writing' on. May ;27,. just prior tp the .open breach-in the Bloc between the Liberals'and ;the Conservatives (who. have allied: themselves .With the Catholic Centre in the mattor of taxation), :the .Berlin .'.correspondent;' of . ' "The Tlmo's"'remirked:-' 1 ' V :.: •; "The, Conservatives with the Steady. : feipport of the Centre oontinue .to cpntrol the situation •In.-'-the Finance'. Reform'! Committee,- and even tho blindness' of Liberals who - Will- not see no longer .obscures the intimacy, of tho relations between the new majority, and the: Government; -.' .The .'committee. has 1 to-day ■ adopted; as was .anticipated in, my last dispatoh; a scheme .of ■ .spirits.!., taxation. acording ; ',to agrarian ; liking,' and .against all protests = has/decided to prooeed to-morrow with the proposal to 1 raise' the.duty on - coffco and on tea.'; , Herr' Sydow shocked tho Liberal sections; of . the' Bloc by "admitting .that' tlie' Treasury :is' supplying tho Conservativeswithmaterialvfor. ; their c now 1 :^unofficial',proposals. These proposals now inolude'tne'expected. tax on matches .arid a tax on light.' of soma indetenfi in'ailc : kind." - .The prijcfepdujwiof the committed; ore.in many inspects highly, irregular, but aro facilitated by tho recint'chaiigoiin'theichairmanship'.' i "With regard to spirits taxation, thei schome adopted to-day. would securo to tho ; distilleries without ■ diminution, and apparently for ;•>all' : 1 time-' to >. coino/; tho 'io-chlled ..'Liebesgdho,'..'. or preferential treatment; under.'the Spirits oxcise, )vhichi_has been a constant subject ot' cohtro--yorsy for about a generation.''', '