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BRITISH INCREASE HEADS ALL COUNTRIES , LIABILITIES FROM WAS British Official Wireless. EUGBY, 22nd Juno. In to-day's' Parliamentary papers, Mr. Winston Churchill (Chancellor of tha Exchequer) gives the latest figures available showing the taxation per lioad of populations in the various countries. In the- financial year ending 1926, taxation per hall was fn Great Britain £15 2s Bd, as ciynpared with £.8 5s lOd in Prance, £5 6s 5d in Germany, £3 8s 9d in Italy, and £6 Is lid in the United States. In the year before the war the figures for Britain were £3 11s 4d, Fiance £3 7s, Germany £1 10s Bd, Italy £2 2s'Sd, and the United States £1 7s lid. By far the largest increase is that of Great Britain, which is £11 11s 4(1 greater per head than the pre-war figure. The largest proportion of this .increase is attributable to' the war debt funding arrangement, and pension and other war liabilities. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 147, 23 June 1928, Page 9
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158TAXATION BURDEN Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 147, 23 June 1928, Page 9
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