The ministry of Finance today issued an order instructing that confiscated property which was transferred by the authorities to a third person is to be returned immediately to the original owners, with the state recompensing the purchaser for whatever he paid the government for the property plus taxes and other expenses.
The order was issued in accordance with a recently enacted law providing for the return of Jewish property confiscated or sold under duress under the former pro-Nazi regime. If the Jewish owner sold the property to pay the special tax levied upon Jews, he must return whatever sum he received from the purchaser, minus the amount he was taxed, the order provides.
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