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Show MUST PAY TAX OF MORE THAN TENTH Special Cable to The Trlhun- HERI.I Aug '2 The small Prussian y of Gorzno has lost the distinction of e ylng the hea est tax in the kingdom, wh b It possessed alnce 1911 until last lea The citizens there who earned 1100 a month pa d U5 7S monthly aa an Income tax alone not Including church, real estate and business taxes. The city of Stuhm now ha a, according to the re ports for 19 4 the h ghest taxes of SJiy Ki ssian c y These amount to on y 11 per cent of the 100-a month mans earnings 1 he rate of taxation In eaees progressive y so that the man th I 000 jeary pays J278 19 a litt e more than 13 per cent, and a man who has an Income of J4000 yeary Is taxed J612 20 nearly la per cent. Twenty west Prussian cities Impose a mun clpal lri come tax of at least 300 per cent of the state tax. The highest municipal tax of the Greater Berlin munlc palltles Is 110 per cent, and some of them gst along nfth 100 ner cent. |