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COMPARATIVE FIGURES CREAT BRITAIN’S HEAVY LOAD. £l5 2s 8d PER HEAD. Rugby, June 22. In to-day’s Parliamentary papers, the Hon. Winston Churchill. Chancellor of the Exchequer, gives the latest figures available showing the taxation per head of the population in various countries in the financial year ending 1926. The comparison is as under:
By far the largest increase is that of Great Britain, which is £ll Ils td 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.
£ s. d. Great Britain ... 15 2 S France .... 8 5 10 Germany 6 6 5 Italy ..389 United States .... .. 6 1 11 In the year before the war the ugures were:— £ s. d. Great Britain .... .. 311 4 France .... 370 Germany 1 10 8 Italy ..228 United States 1 7 11
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 163, 25 June 1928, Page 6
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146TAXATION Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 163, 25 June 1928, Page 6
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