The taxation of certain kinds of business and trade has been keenly discussed by the two Chinese Chambers of Commerce in the Bettlement and at Nantao. As shown in the regulations, the Government wishes especially to tax business in foreign goods or in articles of Juxury, which busines mostly done in the foreign sett ments, with scarcely one per cent. transacted at Nantao. The Cham: bers think that such a tax. should be imposed first in the nettlements instead of at Nantao.
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