'Fo the Editor of the "Nonrit-Cusxa Darwy News'
Sui-With reference to Mx. Panh~ missis letter on Income Tax appear= ing in your to-day's Issue, it should bbe noted that the arguments therein are not based on the legal aspect of the subject. The Greek Government 4s indeed generous in exempting cer-fain foreign refugees "from taxation even sixteen years after their arrival, Dut is that quite necessary? Sixteen, years should be sum cient time for anybody to recover financially. It is. very nice of the Greek Government, of course, "but it is not incumbent upon the' Chinese Government follow sult, Moreover the Greek Government' has the advantage over the Chinese Government, since the 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 been outdone by the Greek' Government, It the Greek Govern ment never' treated Armenians and Kurds any differently from Greek refugees, nor has the Chinese Govern ment. treated the—Russians any differently from its own citizens, the same income tax is being applicable to both, There is hardly any justly fable complaint of discrimination, The disability, for the time being, of the Chinese Government to apply the same law to extra-territorials is no isqualifcation 10 its efforts to col leet from those under its jurisdiction, foreigners as well as Chinese.
At is erroneous to think that the centire Russian community is indigent, as most Russians are" well-to-do, some of them being quite substantial, Those who are not doing well are only assessed variously, such monthly sums as 5 cents for an income of $80, 20 cents for $60 and 60 cents for $100 ote, Any sane person can readily see that such negligible Amounts as these are not going to cause any hardship at all.
It is futile to hope that the abstention from collecting income tax from. non-exterritorial foreigners will Induce extraterritorial foreigners voluntarily to give up extrality. Bven '4 grammar school student will not be 50 credulous as to believe in such suggestions, "It is evident that much more effective means of persuasion must be invoked, If China is ever 10; shake off the shackles of extrality, Which digression was not introduced by Kao Kwox. Shanghai, Aug. 10.
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