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COLONIAL SECRETARIAT,

LOWER ALBERT ROAD,

HONG KONG.

8th July, 1948.

U dean Side botham.

I think it may be of interest to you,

particularly in connection with the question of Civil

Service Salaries and of High Cost of Living Allowances

locally, to know the figures which have been produced for us

by the Inland Revenue Department. On the basis of assessments

for Salaries Tax for the past year, the average income for a

Government servant within the taxation range is $14,234; that

for a salaried person outside Government service is $23,507.

The corresponding figures before the war,

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according to a report furnished by the Commissioner of War

Taxation in 1941, were $10,161 and $12,348.

Your sicurez

Ortom

J. B. Sidebotham, Esq., C.M.G.,

Colonial Office,

LONDON.

RECEIVED 24 JUL 1942

C.O. REGY.