the Editor of the NontH-Ciina Dalny News."
Sm—In your issue of the 12th instant and: "on various _other ceceasions, your correspondent "Paul" fas gone to great trouble to give us figures relative to Shanghai taxa-
As far as I caf gather from read. Jing his letters he accuses the Council of only collecting about one half the ates it could obtain by a revised method of taxation which he also] considers would be fairer.
Tt is not to be expected that our Jocal authorities will reply to any and every letter published criticizing. their methods, but seeing that the! matter is one which affects practi-ally everybody in Shanghai, and that the Council is in such' dire} straits for money that it has bad to increase the Municipal Rate, it would appear that an attack made publicly and persistently should! have received some answer to enable the general public to decide whether various members of the community are actually paying less rates than they should do, Incidentally if "Paul's" figures! are correct and his contention valid (which I am not in a position to Judge for myself) it might have been possible to lower the rate this year instead of raising it and yet Eo have collected more revenue.
Tam, ete.
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