Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-02-02
The Income Tax in Germany.

They have on income tax in Germany
not levied by the Empire but by the
separate States, and in many instances it
is assessed on q system exceedingly de-
tailed and minute, not to say doctrinaire.
The intention is that every class of in-
come shall pay according to its charac-
cognizance of the revenue officers. In
some places, in Saxony for instance,
when it is question Of assessing the in
come of foreigner or any other person
as to whose resources it is matter Of
difficulty for the officials to obtain accu.
rate information, they estimate his in-
come by his outgo, and as they cannot
tax what he gets they tax what he spends.
II man lives in two pair back, blacks
his own shoes, and lives on adiet of Rog.
gsabrud, Wurst and einfaches Brod, he
stands a chance Of escaping notice alto
gether or getting off for II very trifling
contribution; buff he luxuriates in the
first floor of fashionable quarter, keeps
staff of servants and entertains compa-
ny, it is assumed, no matter what he may
say to the contrary, that he is possessed
of considerable property, and he is
mulcted accordingly. The precautions
taken by German Governments to detect
the lodges of fraudulent Taxpayers are
not confined to the living, they extend
beyond the grave. If man, who during
his lifetime AAs professed to have q
small income, leaves behind him large
property, the emissaries of the State call
bis heirs to account and stop their lega-
cies en- transitu until all arrearages have
been cleared off and probably some
heavy fines exacted. A case of this sort
has just occurred in Stuttgart. The for
tune left by HIGHLANDER, the well-known
publisher and author, who recently died
in that city, 10 said to be out of all pro-
portion to the amount he was in the habit
Of returning for assessment to the income
tax, and all the property bequeathed by
him to his family has been seized by the
officers of the revenue, pending satisfac-
ton of the claims of the crown. His
house has been temporarily coDfiscated,
bis balance at his bankers attached, and
even IN embargo laid On the original
manuscript Of the R,maa MINES Leksns.
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