Novel Budget Scheme
TAX ON CHRISTIAN NAMES. IN A FLANDERS VILLAGE. (The Times.) (Received 11.25 a.m.) London, August 22. The Times’ Brussels correspondent says the administrators or the village of Kersele, Flanders, imposed a tax on Christian names, hoping to. repair the Budget deficit. Tho parents, not the children, will pay the tax.
Tho parents bestowing throe names will pay twenty-five francs, and for four names •forty francs. Tho general belief is that tho tax will ho prohibitive, two Christian names, henceforth being sufficient. I
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 92, 23 August 1923, Page 5
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