The conditional provision made in the Snowden Budget for relieving British subjects resident abroad from payment of income tax is the subject of interesting comment in League of Nations quarters. The problem of the double payment of li persons living in a fo has been dealt with at various international conferences, more particularly at the Brussels Financial Conference of 1920 and the Genoa Conference of 1922, and has been investigated by' the Finance Committee of the League.
Only Inst month an expert com: mittee of the League drawn from the Inland Revenue Departments of various States met in Genoa to draw up recommendations. Refore that a League committee which Great Britain was re-
Presented by Sir Josiah Stamp made a preliminary investigation of the problem. The League hopes to obtain the assent of the various Governments and Parliaments to whatever recommendations are now drawn up by its committee, and it ig felt that the load of the' British Government will improve—the. chances of success. trenches in Flanders and perished there in 1915. But neither rumour is ked by evidence. It is just aa" like that he was murdered by some roving band of brigands, Tt is barest ly possible that he is still alive,
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