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Report Against Palestine Tax

May 7, 1934
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The special commission designated to study the question of an income tax scheme for Palestine has concluded its inquiry with the decision that the country is not yet ripe for such a tax levy, it was reliably learned today.

Mr. Huntington, British Treasury official who came here last February to advise the commission, left Jerusalem for London today. His conclusion, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned reliably, was against levying an income tax. The commission, which took testimony from Jews and Arabs, was composed of William Joseph Johnson, treasurer of Palestine; Kingsley William Stead, director of excise customs and trade, and James E.F. Campbell, district commissioner of Jerusalem.

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