THE SALT TAX
INDIA'S CREDIT INVOLVED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyrighl DELHI, .March 31. /Received April 2, at 10.55 a.m.) The Viceroy's statement accompanying the certification of the Salt Tax declares that a recurrence of another Budget deficit.. which the rejection of the tax would cause, making the sixth in succession, would be disastrous lo India’s financial prestige and credit, and (hat the balam /fg of the Budget is of more vital importance than constitutional arguments regarding the Viceroy’s dealing with the outcry against the bnrdcnsomeness of the tax. The. statement shows that, when it was three rupees per inannd, the tav was borne without causing distress or such agitation as was now being directed against the present 2', rupees per maund tax.—A. and N-Z. (.'able.
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Evening Star, Issue 18239, 2 April 1923, Page 6
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124THE SALT TAX Evening Star, Issue 18239, 2 April 1923, Page 6
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