It is apparent that, at least for some time to come, the mercantile world is to have no relict high taxation. If anything, burdens will be added to, for the Kuangtung provincial government needs money, and needs it badly. Its principal source of income has deen cut off with tke closing of the internal pr-duction and consimrtion tax, popularly called the.2) per cent, tax, and it is groping about, looking for ways and means of niaking up what it has lost.
The man who confidently crow "The new Customs tariff replaces all-the multifarious imposts and goods imported into has another guess. The Butter field & Swire incident makes th clear. A thousand bags of sugar brought into the port of Canton after February 1 were held up for payment of a special provincial tax, even though the proper duty was paid, and the goods cleared the Customs in the proper manner, and the sugar tax office held the thousand bags until the special tax was paid,
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