1941-05-09 — Page 39

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 9, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

-WINDSOR HOUSE

TOILET TAX

The lowering of the minimum amount of duty payable on toilet prepara- tions from five cents to one cent goes some way to meet the most serious ob- jection to the Colony's latest revenue tax. Under the original scale, ridi- culous anomalies were created; even now it is a question whether a fairer! incidence would not have been provided by carrying through the revision to 3 cents on 30 cents and 4 cents on articles retailed at 40 cents. Small a mat- ter as it may seem. it al fects most that section of the community where the odd cent more than ever represents a considera-' tion, and whose burdens already are harder than; they well can bear.

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