PUBLICATIONS TAX
MR LANG’S PROPOSAL COMMENT IN ENGLAND. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 18. (Receved November 19, at 10.30 a.m.) The ‘ Evening Standard ’ declares that it is impossible to believe that Mr Lang's halfpenny tax on periodicals will pass in any English-speak-ing country. There never was a more convinced and determined agitation than that against the tax on knowledge which resulted in the abolition of the newspaper tax in 1855. Presumably the proposal includes books, which should make the outcry all the greater in a country with a new and struggling literary class.
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Evening Star, Issue 19410, 19 November 1926, Page 5
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94PUBLICATIONS TAX Evening Star, Issue 19410, 19 November 1926, Page 5
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