MOST HEAVILY TAXED NATION.
BRITAIN £22. GERMANY £3 PER HEAD. The British nation is now by far the most heavily taxed nation in the world. The fact is revealed by the Brussels Conference return of last year, which gives the taxation per head as follows . - Great Britain, £22; United States, £l5; France. £9; Germany, £3; Japan, £1 10/—; Italy, £1 10/-. It is an unpleasant kind of surprise for the nation to find that it is paying seven times as heavy taxes pel head as the Germans, who lost the war. though there is a special clause in the Peace Treaty requiring the German scheme <»f taxation to be fully as heavy proportionately, as that of any of the Allies, and though on December 11th., 1.918. Mr. Lloyd George assured an overflow meeting at Bristol, “those who started it (the war) must pay to the uttermost farthing, and we shall search their pockets lor it!’’
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 63, 2 March 1921, Page 7
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155MOST HEAVILY TAXED NATION. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 63, 2 March 1921, Page 7
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