Kiangsu Bureau's Version of Tax Enforcement phuric acid and nitric is) not anew thing, according to Dr. Henry P. Chin, Jegal advisor to the Kiangsu Bureau under the Ministry of Finance. Dr. Chi explained that some merchants resist the tax levied by the Bureau in the form of Vu Lee (surplus tax), which has been in force since 1931, because they attempt to take advantage of the change of the administration, with a view to evading payment' to the Bureau.
Generally, the merchants impute everything to the old administration, \to justify their stand, but, as ins of fact, the present Bureau was eitabished for the purpose of administering the affairs of the trate in a more. effective manner and in no way has Increased the tax now in force. The' statement that the new bureau, besides attempting to secure a monopoly of the sale of sulphudle acid and nitric acid, has imposed an additional levy is absolutely groundless.
The very name "Vu Lee." which surplus or a profit, indicates goods seller has told his goods, the posting of a Vu Lee certificate' is not required. In the present period of economic depression, the accumula~ tion of a large volume of former Vu Lee certificates on the part of any geller cannot but create suspicion. On the other hand, the Bureau, order to protect Bona Fide sellers or consumers who have retained old Vu Lee certificates, which, as a rule, should be disposed of when p) Bought from the old administration, has" published in leading Chinese papers a notice to the following effect-"From February 1, 1935, any consumer who has unexhausted stocks of sulphuric or nitric acid, bought Before January, 1935, can register them without charge from February 1 to February 3."
Such registration of unused stocks!
entirely for thy benefit of th: holders of former Vu Lee certificates Any challenge, therefore, to the enforcement of the Vu Lee tax by the Bureau can have no justification. To stop attempts to evade payment a proper tax is within the authority
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