DEARER LIFE IN PARIS
TAX ON MAIDS AND PIANOS. Parisians are faced with additional local taxation to make up a deficit of 500,000,000 francs in the city’s budget during the war. In order to establish equilibrium of the budget there are proposals for increasing taxation and for imposing new taxes on land ’and buildings of all sorts. Another idea is to tax pianos, organs, harmoniums and servants. It is expected that the tax on instruments will yield 2,500,000f., and on servants 10,000,600 f. It has been computed that the new taxes will yield 107,000,000 £., but it is hoped to obtain 98,000,000 f. by increasing the octroi duties, exception being made in the case of material for building construction. It is thought that the yield of the new taxes will make good the city’s budget deficit in three years.
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Southland Times, Issue 18818, 11 May 1920, Page 2
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138DEARER LIFE IN PARIS Southland Times, Issue 18818, 11 May 1920, Page 2
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