In replying to a member of the House of Commons, who pointed out the failure of an attempt to introduce an income tax in the British colony of Kenya in Africa, and questioning the success of a similar attempt to introduce income taxes in Palestine, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, British Secretary of State for Colonies, declared that the government was awaiting the recommendations of the Palestine High Commissioner.
Sir Philip said that the government was planning a low income tax which would exclude small incomes and that the whole scheme was part of a plan to alleviate the taxation burden in Palestine by spreading the taxes more equitably. He denied that the object of the income tax was to increase taxes.
The Palestine government has met with determined and united opposition from all Palestine to its proposal to introduce income taxes. The entire population, Jews and Arabs alike, are united in opposing income taxes.
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