Cairo, Jan. %30.
Owing to a deficit in the budget, the Government has decided to increase the duty on tea by amounts varying from £1100 to £8100 (Egyptian currency) per 100 kilogrammes.
Excise duties on the following products will also be raised: Benzine.
12 per cent; coffee, 60 per cent; sugar, 20 per cent.; bottled beers, 300 per cent, The Egyptian Government, according to the newspaper Mokattam, requires seven million Egyptian pounds to balance the budget, Two millions are to be taken from reserve, and the remainder is expected to be produced by increased taxation, including re-imposition of the cotton tax and increase of tHe income tax—Reuter.
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