The Moscow Soviet is planning to urge to the government tax department to moderate the taxes on artisans and to abandon the severe measures of tax collection. It is felt that the taxes imposed on the artisans are too high and that the collectors in many cases have violated the law in collecting unusually high taxes from tailors, shoemakers and other artisans. The high-handed methods of collection had resulted in auctioning off of the goods of artisans to meet the taxes.
The plan to moderate the tax impositions will prevent future confiscations of tools and machinery, which will do much to improve the condition of the Jewish artisans of Moscow who have recently been terrorized by tax inspectors who wanted to show off their energetic actions, although in so doing they violated the law.
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