No Reduction Allowed to Jewish Parents Berlin, Feb. 6.
"Ihe German government has passed a new bill making certain changes in income tax legislation, by distributing the burden of taxation more in accordance with the National Socialist Policy. Racial factors are taken into consideration in that in future no tax reduction, either on income tax or wage lev; anted in respect io Jewish children, whose parents will from now on have to pay these in full. more alterations were in ie church tax, which is compulsory throughout ' Germany Form: persons paying this tax were allowed to deduct its amount from their taxable income. whereas the new bill provides that the amount deducted in respect of church tax must not exceed two per cent. of the total income. This change, it is explained, has been made because certain church communities had inased the church tax and used this additional revenue for the promotion of church welfare work, which w thus being carried out at the cost of the state.
Finally the new bill comes to the aid of small wage earners by providing that the level, at which wages remain exempt from taxation, will be raised from Marks 80.08 a month to Marks 84.50.—Trans-Ocean.
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