Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-01
Octroi
Taxes.

Octroi however added to in
r.. stead of diminishing tax-
alton. for il proved an
additional burden to the peasant, who. in
fact. paid double tax. the taillc and
the octroi.
Statesmen and economists were puz-
zied to find some expedient to relieve the
man who WAS destined to bear then "a
now the burden of government. Singular
to relate. IL was neither statesman nor
economist who discovered a solution Of
the veNed problem. but military engi-
neer. whose genius was not confined to
the construction of Notifications. which
have given him reuown. Ii was Nauhan
who first proposed to establish the sin
gle tax" usually attributed to the .Ameri-
can Henry George
Sebas tien lie Presteur Seignieur lie
Nauban. marshal of Franco. was born at
Saint-Leger tYonne,. lG;:.. lie WAS born
very poor. and although without proi,.c-
ton he nevertheless acquired distinction
by force of his remarkable genius dis
played in the construction Of tn" FORTH
cations that bear his name. Toward the
end of his life. about 100. Marshal
Naubau published n "Projet of ROYAL
Dime. in which he proposed equality
of the taxa single tax of the dime.
or the one-tenth of the income from the
product of lands and houses. This project
caused Nauhan TO he eXiled in disgrace
by Louis XIV. After 200 years they have
found nothing better in taxation than the
single tax proposed by Marshal Nauban.
Under Phlippa .d'Orleans. regent. thu
Duke de Noailles elaborated a project
with the view OF relieving the people
from their burdens The duke proposed
that the arbitrary taille should be re-
placed by "A proportional tax tmaintain-
ing exemption of the mobility and clergy.
fra nal
until IT'S. when il was abandoned.
Controller Orry undertook to reform the
arbitrary taille in 1913. He introduced
system known AS the tariff taille. in
which taxpayers We're held to sign
declaration as to their incomes. They
were to be- assessed in proportion to their
means and couformably to the official
tariff. The collectors declared that the
declarations were habitually false and
they were obliged to have recourse TO
other methods.
Finally and what with the continued
privileges of the nobility and clergy and
the favors extended by the collectors 10
friends, there were parishes where half,
sometimes two-thirds. of the taxables paid
no taxes whatever. The greater part OF
the public burden thus, according to Bos-
Guillebert. fell upon the ''indefendus." or
those who had no friends protectors.
- >
eo III i"'' 10y 'he coh'f"ii't, 'neh' foiit-
chartran. minister of
pOntchartrains ma rnc under Louis
XIV. Having exhaust
ed an other eNPeoie"'S.
Pontchartrain resolved upon an innova-
ton. and in place of the two classes OF
a;a,,, ,ha n,;,;s,ar formed tvepty-tuo
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ihe M - lass W. 49,
which formerly had been exempt. were
now for the first time to bc taxed BY
.to farms of ,h, declaration of January
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all SUBJECTS except tue hieii"p'dht poor
The classes We're four-thc first, princes
f blood and ministers who wcr, faxed
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payment OF 4""fs" francs Il year. me
second class consisted of dukes. inarShalS
and others 1 500 francs each: the third
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