The City of Montreal has at last balanced its budget by Imposing new taxes that are of the most direct sort, An income tax that is from ten to twenty per cent. of the Federal tax, and a sales tax that applies to retail sales of most commodities except food, are making the citizen remem ber each day that it costs something to run a large city.
It 18 one of the provisions of the sales tax of two per cent. that the tax must not be included in the selling price, but must be shown on the Bill 'Many of the apers are finding the collection extremely difficult, and a dreading' the making of monthly returns giving a detailed ent of their takings. The us cial stamp has been suggested, as has that of a box into which to drop the tax coppers, but so far nothing has been done by the city to simplify the matter,
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