Two very important rulings on income tax have been given this week. In the first place there are many firms which pay their omployees a salary, and also the income tax on that salary. The Income Tax authorities have successfully established in the Courts that income tax must be paid on the salary and onthe income tax payments jointly, reckoning the Intter as part of the emoluments of the recipient. In the next place the House of Lords has defeated the Crown in its efforts to compel 'a man to pay income tax in a year which he received no income from his investments abroad, although he had always previously paid on the' three years' average system. This decision only applies to tax in respect of income arising from possessions out of the United Kingdom.
Unemployment is a little less, while trade circles are characterized famines, and appalling conditions of life in the vast interior, there is always much to be done "Ix Feng, the Christian General, really a Christian?" Mr. Beckett asked, and he replied without hesitation, "Feng is really a Chris ing, he said: "The Genaral invited the Salvation Army, to hold a service in hig camp once a month. Feng's Chief of staff is an ardent Christian, and he took The first of the meetings was held in a hall large enough to hold four hundred, but the Salvationists were explained that there was nobody present. under the rank of major in Feng's, Immediately following that there was another on the drill ground, when five thousand soldiers were present. To test or not the soldiers were Christians, & passage frowa the Scriptures' was read, and the men were asked to follow it. Thereupon every soldier took out a copy of the New Testament. jest now by an amount of optimism that is positively surprising. If the anticipations prove to be well founded everybody will be pleased. The Government is trying to cut down the dole to tha unworthy, and I notice this week that one man receiving £7.0.0. Poor Law Relief has complained bitterly that he had not been given free food tickets for his children at school.
This was at Gateshead, where the ratepayers are paying nearly 22/- in the £1.
Think It Out Let me finish up on lighter notes.
interesting relationship tangle ident, who the ' only man since the days of the Em-perers who has really handled the tuation in the country. I have had a letter from one of our leaders, who is-still in China, and he writes:
still believe that' General Feng. is perfectly straight, and one, it China's great Captain Beckett said that soldiers were to-day the curse of China, The average Chinaman was a good, fellow, but it spoiled him to put hin into uniform,
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