"WAR ON THE PALACES"
SOCIALIST CRY IN AUSTRIA. "War on th Palaces!" is the latest battle-cry of the Social Democrats in Austria, who, despite the economic slump, want to raise the municipal tax on the larger homes, big villas, banking localities, clubs, and expensive shops. The revenue would be used for the construction 'of new dwelling-flats for workmen. In a number of cases this tax would be doubled under the Social Democrats' scheme, involving extra payments up to £3OOO a year. Owners and tenants say that if the tax were to be imposed nothing would be left to them but to demolish their buildings.
Municipal taxes in Vienna seem hardly in accordance with the times, the one for domestic servants, for instance, being so high that Baron Louis Rothschild is now saving some £IO,OOO a year by cutting down domestic staff. It is also disquieting that the Government, despite the protest against the municipality, is going to increase its own special tax on dwelling-flats.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3443, 15 March 1932, Page 3
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