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Me Nicoll which he had been strongly in favour but on
examination it appeared that considerable
additional staff would be required and not a
great return would be yielded. They had been
worried about corruption in the Income Tax
Department and had instituted an enquiry; apart from this the
but
by Collection of income tax from
Chinese who kept three different sets of books
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one for the partners, one for the family and one
the individual for himself/ that was a very difficult proposi-
tion.
He had now come to the conclusion that
a more direct tax, for instance on cargoes
coming through Hong Kong, could be more easily
and certainly collected.
They had not yet
succeeded in finding a way of taxing the rich
refugee who was living on capital and who was
really responsible for inflation and for
upsetting the orderly life of the Colony.
(&) Social Welfare.
They had a section
devoted to social welfare and a great deal was
with fours in sut support, done by private charity. The Chinese was much
more ready to finance charitable organisations
than to pay taxes for Government activityes
The Tung Wa hospital with 100 beds, which had
looked after a large number of Nationalist
soldiers who had entered the Colony, was a good
example.
all
Sir Charles Jeffries said that/this put
rather a different complexion on the matter and he
thought it would be worth putting a note of the
discussion to the Secretary of State before deciding
on future action.