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TAXES AND HOW THEY ARE COLLECTED
Tax on pigeons
From Gavin Gordon, Brusasia.
Who does not dislike paying taxes ?
Read how people of
other countries fare in respect of this necessary evil.
Belglans can keep pet dogs, coffee, and salt, as well as on cats, birds, and tortoises with cigarettes, matches, and all forms out interesting the tax collec-of alcohol. The Government's 24354 tor, but their bicycles must high luxury tax levies exorbitant
have licences.
amounts on refrigeratera, high- powered cars, radios, fancy goods and dog licences at 27 a year.
Most unpopular
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This bicycle licence is a "local fund" matter, and the charge mar be anything frợn 4s to 11s fd.. depending on where you live.
From Ritchie McEwan, Vienna, Entertainment tax is
In a country constantly over. n local affair as well, and is solemnly burdened with taxes, the occup levied on illegal entertainments | ation costs tax is by far the most such as cock-fights. There is a unpopular in Austria, An addi- tax on racing pigeons, and
tional 20 per cent of their income four per cent tax on all betting tox aggregate must be paid to
The anme wins,
Imposition help maintain the occupation applies to roulette tables, with forces and Control Commissions. the casing itself paying the tax Austria hoo always on table-hours,
notorious for the petty, niggling taxes and dues exacted from her citizens. An example of one of these taxes today is the beverage tnx. Imposed on all drinks ex- rept milk and beer. It is a 10 per cent tax, and must be pald on wines, coffee with cream, and even on mineral waters and ice
One tax that can't be evaded i levied when you are being buried-unless you are buried in the commune where you died. If you cross from one commune to another the local tax-collector is at the hearse-side, and makes a note each time the "frontier" is crossed,
In the Congo
there is marriage tax on all wives ofter the first, becoming heavier the trore wives there are.
One Congo chief tried to pay UNO AND FORMOSA | hạn tax by submitting his sur
plus wives, but the tax collector
on the the rejected them
grounds were not accepted that they
Despatches during week-end indicated that top-currency or "goods." level Anglo-American discus- 64 in Turkey
From Alec Cooper, Ankara,
sions are going on aimed at finding means of placing For- mosa under United Nations trusteeship presumably as
an
emergency measure, 15
was the original action of
President Truman in neutra- lising the island. The Unit- ed States has already res- ponded to the Peking Note demanding action by the United Nations to secure the withdrawal of the Seventh Fleet and American armed forces in Formosa-where in
0
tax-
The harassed Turkish payer is faced with the possi bility of paying 64 direct and Indirect taxes, from 288, a year for n radio licence to 7d nation
defence tax on a packet of cheap
cigarettes.
mention
cream.
with
spoko" pencilled discreetly un- derneath.
This farolgri Inscriptions" tax has compelled most shop- owners to put up their signs in Greek, but the more fashionable Govern- restaurants and bars pay the tax to keep their English or French titles, and so sítručk moro custa-
lengthy correspondence Government Departments.
In reverse, if the postman de- livers n
letter from ment Department the addressee must pay the postage, plus coilection fee even if the letter i mors.
only an Income tax form. Nor... Dogs and bikes
can he refuse the lotter,
Finally, in addition to all these petty taxes, Austria has nearly all the British toxes.
Third party
From Michael Manning, Athans. Scoes of taxes in Greeco- from a lax on claemas acats to cne on water bills are closed been under the non-committal title of
'third party tax."
Through the Greek Ministry of Finance the wealth from these taxes is re-distributed in various and sometimes strange woys. The "third party tax" of seven- pence on every 2s 6d cinema scat goes to the benefit of retired musicians men who lost their Jobs when talking films were in
Greece some 20 troduced into
Or again-every time an Aus- trian dils up & Government form | years ago.
From Dudley Hawkins, Nairobi,
In the groat open spaces of Kenya you can ride a bicycle and keep a dog and pay ng tax of all.
Good Morning!
"The o Times today criticised the speech.....
You know what this is? Times without number.
are allowed factories
in
Soviet inspectors ta enter defence Britain,
The government apparently wants the Left band to what the Right band is doing.
know
Once within the boundaries of) "Kilts cause stir in Korean Nairobi, however, your dog will battleground." | cost you; 5s a year and your There'd have been a bigger`ailr
bicycle--it you are energetic en-It the pipe band had plaid, ough to ride a bicycle 0,000 feét above sea level under the tro- pical run-unother 4s, paid to the local council
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Dr. Bunje, said a local report, of made. " blatant rojecllon"
The blatancy around here is the medlent
For the 5 dog licence the euthanasia. owner is given a metal disc with a registration number which can not the mark of be tied to the deg's collar, If the profession. dog is lost the disc helps the searchers, whereas a lost dog with no dise is impounded and very likely destroyed.
"Roof leaks can be detected in Tains."
Yes Indeed, but first you got
Bleycle lleences are also ac- companied by an Identity disc- to have a house.
bright triangular plece metal which can be fixed to the wheel spokes.
a
o!
The
3.
all
or writes to a Government De- Among other taxes is that on partment he must buy revenue bleycles-£1 Os Od a year. stamps and stick one on each radio licence costs another plece of paper. If he forgets to ond a levy is imposed on Wireless licences are possibly do this his letter will go straight shops with "foreign Inscrip- the most expensive in the Em- into the waste-paper basket.
Nearly half the shops in piro-30s to listen to the single Jack"
station with
of 7LO **English low The only noticeable virtue of Union this system is that it discourages Athens have signs such as "Bar Nairobi.
tions."
Not all say
But not all the Slavs are say
under-
power
"Da" to Tito
By David Lee
a
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Think
of the Earth, think about Venus, Millions of miles of nothing
between us.
1
People up there who can see
Kores
1
Must feel darn glad they're
not down here!
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The U.S. Air Force chief says it would he the. Hoyt of stupidity How many enemies has, receiving Instructions from ex- leaders are former Yugoslav am- for America to lag behind in
organisations bassadors in Bucharest and Buda- technical development. Marshal Tito? More than the King Peter's
pest, Brankov London, Paris and Rome.
and Golubovic, Communist Balkan dictatori
while another former Tito man, Peasant resistance
U.S. reduces the amount General Popivada, heads an exile rubber available to civilians. One levy In 1042, known as the varlik or taxation on capital tax, likes to admit.
Yugoslav The fifth opposition threat to "true" Fimed at "biceding"
Communist the
They will still, however, have It rich
Is understandable that there Tito is the dangerous passive re- party, supported by Yugoslav of- minarities to the hing of spine is opposition to Tito. His is a sistance of the Yugoslav peasant, deers who were training in Mos- plenty of bounce.
Communist dictator- 70 million sterling while Turkish complete
at present unorganised but cow when the Tito-Stalin spilt Was taxed to the ship, backed by a ruthless state
occurred. Any of these men enterprise
The East German president harest minimum. Defaulteral police force. His people work a
might take Tito's job in the event
take his apparently wants to of a successful "putsch." were sent to read-building camps 00-hour week, face extreme hard-
the of the enemies of ships and lack the simple essen- in the Eastern provinces.
How dangerous are these move- Pleck Today the farmer is one of the tlals of life.
ments to Tito? The Cominfor- People. He indicated that it he the torst-hit of the tax-payers.
mists, going all out to overthrow could have laid hands on
chancellor, that fact there are no American sides a cattle census tax which ing "Da" (yes) to Marshal Tito,
Tito, are to be feared most. They West German
would not have combat forces. Mr. Warren hens to pay so that the Gov. Both inside and outside this turamounting to tens of thousands and it easy to infiltrate
across gentleman Austin at once announced, on crament can live the privilege bulent Balkan country
Yugoslavia's long frontiers with Adenauer to live. must ground movements are plotting of Tito-haters.
The frontier city of Trieste is Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary. behalf of his Government, of counting his stock, he
comes headquarters of Assistance
easily from have just been the advanced "Eleven spics
Rumour has it that President that America would welcome pay a 10 per cent manipulation against the Tito regime.
tax on everything he sells not
the soldier's arrested by the security police," two strong anti-Tito organizations. large minority groups living in an investigation on the spot, to
If uprisings Truman will shortly present the Ministry of When the sun sets over the Ad- these border areas. by the United Nations, of families support tax, from which said an officiel
family is the interior the other day in the ristle, groups of men with false among these minorities could be bill to Congress for the replacing, and Cominformist of governmental red tape by documents, arms, ammunition and engineered, Yugoslav capital. Peking's charges of aggres- every enlisted
the frontiers to green
for tape
psychological "They were caught with 15 ample funds set off from their armies crossed sion against "an integral part supposed to get 289 a month.
radio transmitters, automatic headquarters to cross the Yugos- assist "oppressed brethren", then reasons.
might
show of Chinese territory."
weapons, cameras, propaganda lav frontier, five miles from the many. Stalinists
themselves.
"Husband accused of trying to It can hardly be expected
not material,
and nearly 2 militon clly's centre,
This is Tito's biggest danger. white-stone
blow up spouse." Some leave the to initiate such a move itself,
government The Yugoslav
Nowadays Communist hend-
inflation you find 'terrorists'. pro-Moscow lars in cash. Those but also but will support and assist
dinars (£14,000) and 1.000 dol
lavia, admitted
anli-Tito such a study if the Security
who were smuggled into Yugos- quarters on the water-front. Here meanwhile continues to deny re-even in the home.
having special the
organisationk is ports of opposition to the regime.
No, Myrtle, I have never heard Council so wishes. The real
intelligence and radio courses ably led by one of Europe's top Yet trials against anti-Tito "trai-
tors" have been frequent. Against champagne tasters called students problem is to make neutrali-
before crossing the frontier," he Communists, Vittoria Vidali.
"Albanian spics" in Titograd; of fizziology. added.
Then there is the pro-ex-King
"Crusaders, against "Macedonian terrorists" sation effective for the dura-
There are five main opposition Peter group, the tion of the emergency or un-{
threats to Tito.
This is the most determined and at Sicolpje; against "Hungarian Strongest is the pro-Moscow best run of Yugoslavia's several agents" at Apatin, less or until the Peking Gov- United Nations, which may crnment decides to plunge quite well lead to an emer- Cominform group, operating from pro-Western underground groups. Prague, Budapest and Bucharest, The chief "Crusader" in Yugos- into hostilities on the side of gency administration of the controlled, of course, from Mos- lavia is a former monk known as
"uncle." the Kremlin. In that event, island by that body, without cow.
Then there
strong are three
Bucharest there is Already which still seems improbable, prejudice to the final settle-
pro-Western-movements (in.n.sort of Yugosiny Communist everything would be changed. | ment.
Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia), government in exile. Two of the
man's
In Turkey every resident pays 35s a year for road maintenance, while the peasant who pays an indirect education tax has
only to build the village school
with his own means,
support the teacher sent by the
Governnient.
Indirect taxation of 40 to 70 per cent ils levied on sugar, tea,
to enable
Siam is ready
By Francis Dodwell
or
I Tito was assassinated, serious disorders broke out in Yugoslavia, Western plans for a neutral Yugoslavia would be dis- astrously upset.
Consequently orders have been given to the pro-Western under- ground movements "to go alow," Preparations for the in- The main object is to pre-
But young ox-King Peter of vasion of Formosa were vent a totally unnecessary
Yugoslavia, now in exile, has believed to have been almost conflict between a regime
made it clear in recent statements he does not approve of the West's complete when the North Britain has recognised and
present pampering of the dictator Inside now ruling his country. Korean Communists struck. the United States. There is
Yugoslavia, his followers are an- Before Peking could get over little enough that we can do
xlous to strike against Tito. the shock, President Truman to prevent it if Peking should
A thoughtful Slov sald to me: took action so as to prevent decide to go all-out with In addition to 15 Spitfire Ing for considerable strengthening "Perhaps the time is not ripe to overthrow Tilo. He might be re- an expansion of the hostilities the Kremlin against the free fighters already ordered by of the Army and the Air Force,
rulers, the to Formosa. The dilemma world. But what we can con- the Siamese Government The decision to purchase Vam-placed by harsher
tan only hope was thus a double one, from scientiously do
from the United Kingdom, pire jets from Britain, although Russians. We Peking's viewpoint. The tone Fcking the better to resist another 30 fighters will also made only since the Korean 1ght-Tito's association with the Anglo- ing began, has been considered Americans will make bim more and texture of Peking's sub-pressure from the Kremlin,
The threat of underground mission of the question to the we should do. The formula be ordered from there in- for some time by the Siamese De- democratic."
Vampire jet fence Ministry. In 1949 Squa cluding six United Nations matter less Mr. Churchill has just applied
en might force Tito to take a more man in South-East Asia,"
Siamese crowds and moderate road. than the fact that it decided to the issue between Moscow machines and other latest dron Leader Francis, "the fastest movements from East and West
In Britain it has and the free world should pe fighter aircraft. This is thralled
one of the steps Slam is deeply impressed the Siamese been greeted as a decision to also be, and is now being, taking to strengthen her de- Defence Ministry officials in a
display of oe obatics in his Vam appeal to law rather than to applied to China. The ele- fences.
pire Jet Oghter, the, Arst jot force, The interpretation ment of strength has been
plane to be seen over Bangkok. A supplementary allocation of The Army then sounded the may not wholly be divorced mentioned again by the Com- from wish-thinking but it mander of the United States Tes. 16 million (£400,000 sterling public on the question of buying at the official rate) is before Por- some jet planes, but local news- may turn out to be the right Seventh Fleet in his warning llament now to meet part of the papers ridiculed the idea, claim- one in spite of the hostile re- to the more bellicose faction cost of the aircraft ordered from ing there was no need for such aircraft. The vernacular ferences to the United States in the People's Government. Britain: And the Siamese Defence fast
Phibul journals have now changed their Minister. Field-Marshal and the sudden spate of The clement of fairness and Songgram, who is also the Pre-tune, and are in support of such n activity by the Peking. For-conciliation has been added mier, has announced the forma purchase. eign Office.
?
by Washington's willingness tion of another Army division for the north-eastern part of the The Chinese are pretty to let the issue be judged by country where any attack against clever at saying one thing the United Nations.
Slam is certain to develop - from
to do so.
Home Guard
The leading English-language and doing another, and their The Soviet failed in its Indo-China.
newspaper "Bangkok Post" circumstances are so difficult attempts to link Chinese re- In addition three B-29 hombers) urged the Government to emulate that this is just the sort of presentation in the United and a number of United States the example of Malaya and form manoeuvre that is more or Nations with the Korean 6ghter training aircraft will ar- a Home Guard,
U.S. Mission
: Is
to belter, materials and, weapons being accured from abroad. 2.
The Blamese military leaders Indo-China, the United Stater will hope that in their desire to help not be tardy in supplying much- needed military equipment, specially heavy lanits and anti-
Conscription la. continuing in Slam and the Army less forced on them. At any issue. It is now tryingtive in the country soon,
is being strengthened consider- They will be part of the US. ably, but it still lacks modern rate, the People's Government desperately to link up Korea has referred the issue to Lake and Formosa in order to bring $10,000,000 alt promised Slam in arms and equipment. It is ex- Its stand against the Communist pected that the recent. Cabinet Success, and the United States about Chinese intervention. menace. The B-20s will be down decision to tighten the rules re- has expressed the hope that Peking seems to have devised there by the United States air garding purchase of equipment consideration by the United a compromise. It has sud- crews who will instruct the Slam- for the fighting forces will lead Nations would contribute to a denly proclaimed its con- ese pilots in their handling. peaceful, rather than a for-cern with Korean settle. cible, solution of the problem. mentafter maintaining a
North Korea, it will be re long official silence on the A United States Military mis membered, refused from the subject. But it based that slon also in Bangkok first to have any contact with concern on the irrefutable now on a tour of South East Asia countries, Siam. will the United Nations Commis contention that it is Korea's seek to obtain more arms aid, inni gune f sion, whose mission it was to neighbour. And at the same especially of equipment for the AMANDA orcate a unified Korea based time it acted separately on Army, Including tanks and arm- The tanks will be used to do on the expressed will of the Formosa, by referring it to oured cars, anti-tank weapons, fend Bangkok, if they are receiv
heavy calibre cannon and fightored. Outside Bangkok the roads people. The aggressors got the United Nations. Action alecraft. The Siamese High are poor and narrow while paddy off on the wrong foot, with now on the Formosa question Command is certain that any at Bolds stretch for miles along both "Even in dry-whather It fatal consequences, China in the direction Indicated fack made against the country sides. has avolded that gross error, might make matters much will be on land and, therefore, I would be extremely dimeull, though even now the going chalor when the Korean altun considered bocessary to not impossible, for heavy tanks strengthen the navy make a to, drive down to Bangkok from won't be easy. Nevertheless, tion enters its final and most Further, Slam can always call the North East or North A drive It is surely not too much to delicate stage, without neces- on United States and z Brillan) on Slam can easily be slowed navni a midin, en emergency. down if a few key," bridges are: ask Poking to abide by a sarily impeding the speedy slameso milliary Leaders, aware blown up across the Chao Phya temporary declelon by the handling of that problem of the lesson of Korea, are presse, and the Mekong Rivers.
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