Foreign Communities in Japan
‘DELINQUENT TAXES.”
CJuited Press Association—By Electrit Telegraph—Copyright. TOK2O, Sept. 20. Tho foreign communities in Yokohama, Kobe, and Nagasaki are in a furore over the action of the muncipalities in attaching the office and home furniture, even telephone, surgical instruments, personal effects, automobiles, and clothing of upwards of 200 British residents, including Australian, and Canadian, also French, American, Swiss and other occupiers of perpetual lease property for what the authorities call delinquent taxes for the past five years, the total approaching a million yen, plus 16 per cent, compound interest. Tho occupiers claim that they are exempted by the British and French Treaties as interpreted at The Hague, which the Japanese resented, causing sporadic controversies and ili'-fecling for tho past thirty years, during which time the Government compensated the municipalities, but recently suddenly stopped it. The municipalities also threaten to attach SO per cent, of salaries until they arc satisfied.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 223, 24 September 1934, Page 5
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