CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3] — Page 137

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on the business of insurance in this Colo-

carrying fire jny.

It is also only fair, I

submit, that insurance offices which have their head-quarters in Europe and Agencies in Hongkong, from which they derive large profits, should contribute "directly towards the revenue

of the Colony.

It has been alleged that a probable result of~ adopting the suggestions

con

tained

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tained in the letter from the Insurance Companies would be suppression of the smaller to the benefit of the larger Companies.

While doubting such

a result I may

add that an alternative suggestion has been put forward by another Company to the effeat that the Companies should be taxed at the~

rate of 2/20

during the

on the net profits

year.

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