Taxing powers almost equal to those possessed by governments were today granted to the Palestine Jewish community by the Palestine Government.
The regulations, published in the Official Gazette, empower the Vaad Leumi, Jewish national council in Palestine, to levy a tax of ten percent of the actual rental value of property owned by Jews.
In addition, each local community is given the right to budget a tax on property not exceeding five percent of its annual rental value. Proceeds from the tax are to be earmarked for education, relief, charity and the rabbinate.
The individual Jewish communities, besides these new tax sources, have an income from shechita, the Jewish ritual method of slaughter ing animals for human consumption; from the sale of matzoth and the authentication of official documents.
The agreement by which the Vaad Leumi and the Jewish communities are given taxing powers was signed by Isaac Ben-Zvi, president of the Vaad Leumi, Eliahu Berligne of the same organization, and was approved officially by Palestine High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope.
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