The long awaited budget passed today by the French Chamber of Deputies and the Senate includes a provision for a ten per cent tax payable by the employers on the wages of foreign workers.
Later the Chamber of Deputies agreed to eliminate the tax on employers, but obtained a promise from Minister of Finance Germain Martin that the French government will later introduce a bill to the same effect, which will not conflict with international treaties.
Before the budet was passed, the Senate struck out the employer tax cause only to have it reinstated by the Champer.
The tax menaces not only the recently arrived German Jewish refugees who were able to find employment in France, but also the large number of Jews who fled from Russia after the revolution and settled in France. The tax applies to all those living in France less than then years.
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