The Archive · 1937

Involuntary Digression

INCOME TAX

To the Editor of the "Norru-Ciuwa Darcy News"

With reference to Mx. Pa letter on Income Tax appear-issue/ it should be noted that the arguments therein are not based on. the legal aspect of the subject. The Greek Government is indeed generous in exempting certain foreign refugees from taxation even sixteen years after their arrival, but is that quite necessary? Sixteen years should be sufficient time for afiybody to, recover financially. It is very nice of the Greek Government, of cot but it is not incumbent upon the Chinese Government to follow suit, Moreover the Greek Government has the advantage over the Chinese Government, since Greek Government can impose a tax on all foreigners in Greece, but the Chinese Government cannot tax all the foreigners in China, In one aspect the Chinese Government has not been outdone by the Greek Government. If the Greek Government never treated Armenians and Kurds any differently from Greek re~ fugees, nor has the Chinese Government tretted the Russians differently from its own citizens, the same income tax is being applicable to both. There is hardly any justi-fable complaint of discrimination. The disability, for the time being, of the Chinese Government to apply the same law to extra-territorials is no

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