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Four Times As Many Jewish Taxpayers in Palestine As Arabs, Government Report Discloses

March 11, 1945
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There are four times as many Jewish as Arab taxpayers in Palestine and their per capita tax is five times that paid by the Arabs, it is revealed by the current issue of Statistical Bulletin of the Palestine Government.

The publication reports that there are 1,061,400 Arabs in the country, more than twice the number of Jews, of whom 4,947 are taxpayers, paying a per capita tax of 260 mills. While the estimated Jewish population is 493,000, there are 17,527 taxpayers among them, resulting in a per capita tax of 1,390 mills.

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