CO129-558-3 Levy on Salaries- petition from Chinese Civil Servants 3-1-1936 - 19-12-1936 — Page 9

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Europeans are paid in dollars. It is, I gather,

a distinction between the locally-recruited

officer and the officer recruited from this

country.

The differentiation in the scale of

levy is a considerable one, as the following

examples will show

they are based on a

conversion rate of 1/6 which is proposed for

the first quarter of the year, and the rates of

levy for dollar salaries shown at Y in the

the figures a neglect telegram (i.e. in both cases the cost of living

catombatect the additional levy which the offices The Denis are ne_losted-for- var yoses of

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subjected for purposes of cnt of living adjustments)

comparison.

(1) A dollar paid officer drawing $3,200 would

pay a levy of 190 dollars or 3% of his salary.

A sterling paid officer drawing £240 (= $3,200)

would pay no levy at all. A sterling paid

officer would not pay a levy amounting to 6%

of his salary over-all unless he were drawing

well over £1000 a year.

(2) A dollar paid officer drawing $7,500 would

pay a levy of

fō70 marcas

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9%.

A sterling paid officer drawing £562/10/-

($7,500) would pay levy of less than £24

(= $320) 4.3%.

This differentiation is open to

criticism on two grounds viz:-

(a) as between two officers whose income in

dollars is the same, it imposes a much

heavier burden on the officer paid originally

in dollars as compared with the officer

paid