Berne, Dec. 28.
The special war supertax on incomes has just been doubled in Germany, so ihat the income tax is now 75 per cent. higher than in September, according to the Berlin correspondent of the newspaper "Neue Zuercher Zeitung."
The correspondent ddds that German firms are now in serious difficulties following the sudden decrease in the volume of business due to the lack of goods and the rationing system. Quite q number of these firms, the correspondent continues, are suspending business as from January 1 while others are only able to carry on with government assistance.—Havas.
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