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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19378, 16 July 1937, Page 2

• After outlining the work of social reconstruction in Vienna in the years following the~war, Dr. Paul Dengler, of the New Education Fellowship, said in a lecture at Auckland that his audience would be wondering how an impoverished country like Austria could find so much money. "I wondered if you knew anything of taxes," asked, "but I see from your newspapers that you do." In Vienna the air was free, but the rest was taxed. Taxes ranged from 7 per cent to 33 per cent of income, real estate, and luxuries. Goods purchased in fashionable shops cost more than the same purchases in other shops; motor-cars and servants were taxed, even meals in a restaurant were not exempt. "Only the foolish or the wealthy could afford to dance at a restaurant." Dr. Dengler said; there was a special tax on the pianist and a tax on the dancing that increased as the hour grew later.