TAX-DODGING
FRENCHMAN DISCOVERS NEW METHOD OF BEATING COLLECTOR. A new wa,y of not paying taxeis 'has foeeru discovered by a dealer in agricultuml implements at Laval, in France. . . It had heen decided to distrain up-on him, and the bailiffs were about to carry off certain goods to the public auction roohis for sale, when he pointed out to them that the law required that the sale should take place on the premises. So they removed the keys of the buildings concerned and affixed their official seals on the doors. 'Ora their return next day, however, (they found that when (they tried to open the doors they received violent shocks, as the electric light current had heen connected with the locks. They had the current tumed off by the company but they were still defeated; for . the recalcitrant taxpayer — or tax eluder — had anticipated this move, and had connected up a generatinig plant of his own. Eventually they rebired, not only before all this ingenuity, but before the crowd of a couple of thousand sympathisers which it had brought together.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 591, 24 July 1933, Page 2
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179TAX-DODGING Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 591, 24 July 1933, Page 2
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