GERMAN TAXES
TO MEET THE REPARATIONS
A " NATIONAL" EMERGENCY
SACRIFICE."
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIOHT.)
(AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLB ASSOCIATION.)
(Received August 8, 11 a.m.)
BERLIN, 7th August,
The new taxation to meet the reparations includes sugar from fourteen to a hundred marks per 100 kilograms, and spirits oight hundred to four thousand marks per nectolitre. The taxes on beer and lighting are quadrupled, and on matches and mineral waters doubled. The duties on bananas, dates, tea, coffee, cocoa, spices, and other luxuries are also increased. The .new taxes include those on motor-cars, insurance business, and company profits, also a levy on capital to be called " tile national emergency sacrifice." Bookinakinjj iB to be legalised and taJtedi
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 33, 8 August 1921, Page 7
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115GERMAN TAXES Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 33, 8 August 1921, Page 7
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