THE CAREFUL FRENCH
Many French investors are trembling at the prospect of the enforcement of the Government's plan to render tax evasion more difficult. By increasing the powers of collectors of such revenues as income tax, the Treasury expects to obtain an exWa £8,000,000 in a single year. .'. -
_ "Increased powers" would probably include the right to make very searching inquiries about all banking accounts and transactions made through them. Even private deposit safes in the vaults of the banks would be subject to inspection. .
Opponents of the schema declare that }t will encourage hoarding— not perhaps in the traditional French "woollen stocking," but in its modern form, of safes kept in secrecy at home or office. That there is a leal danger of this is shown. by a sudden boom, since the Buget Bill was tabled in the- Chamber m the safe of safes.
Sea-lions at the London Zoo have to be given 401b of fisli a day to keep them going. ' > .
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 25, 31 January 1933, Page 14
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162THE CAREFUL FRENCH Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 25, 31 January 1933, Page 14
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