Arrangements were reported to have been concluded between the Japanese-controlled General Tax Bureau and Chinese merchants concerning the collection of consolidated taxes, according to a Chinese report.
The Bureau, it is reported, will appoint tax assessors to factories to record the goods manufactured and taxes to be collected from them, If these goods are to be sent to Canton and Fukien and other places in the interior, where the Chinese Government will not recognize the Bureau's receipts, the taxes will be paid to the Chinese Government instead, In addition to the collection of consolidated tax from Chinese cotton mills, the General Tax Bureau is also planning to impose levies on tobacco, flour, matches and cement, Measures for the collection of these taxes are similar to those devised by the Revenue Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Chinese Government The original schedules fixed by the Department will be followed by the Bureau, it is reported, The General Tax Bureau for Kiangsu, Chekiang and Anhwei was organized recently following the closure of various revenue offices of the Ministry of Finance,
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