Show The great department stores are worrying wor-rying the small shopkeepers In Pros sin and their demand for a tax upon them has caused the introduction of a bill In the Prussian Dk The bill Is unlike un-like that which governs In France which bases the taxes to be levied upon the rental value of the premises and the number of employees The German law levies a tax on sales whether profitable or nol and upon all stores that have a retail sale of more than l25000 per annum Those that have sales ranging from 51 5OCKj to 137000 are to pay 1875 Then the tax ia Increased 250 for each 512500 additional ad-ditional sales up to 200000 after that every Increase In sales of 12000 will pay a tax of 5375 The owTiers of largo establishments are fighting the bill savagely and it does look pretty tough to assess a merchant mer-chant 20 per cent on his sales |