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Show COMMONS WILL FIRST DISCUSS TAX QUESTION By W. ORTON TEWSON. i By International News Service. LONDON. Sept. 19. The parliamentary time table ha been so arranged that the 'house of com n gins will he tihlelly engaged this week in dipcusalng the financial i njMMIIon "hancellor of the Exeheauer l McKenna will introduce the budget on Tuesday. Although it is tM third budget I of the v-ar it ill be the first really determined de-termined effort to grapple with the gl-I gl-I garii- financial problems that the na-i na-i Hon lf called upon to solve. It Is variously computed that the .-i .-i ditlonal taxation that t lie chancellor will impdse will he from $.000. 00 ti 1&0.0W.-i 1&0.0W.-i 006 pounds ( $ I'Ki.GOf.uoo to JT.t,0OOiO00) ' per annum. So there is plenty of room for surprise!-. The expectation is gen-. gen-. eral that there will 1k large fncreascH to ' the income tax. H is suggested that Hie tajt on smaller earned incomes may be J raised to two shillings or even more and on earned Incomes of above 2690, pounds C$1 C.."nri i to two sldlling" ix pence j Voout 00 cents) in the pound. ( Tax on Imports. - A strong rumor is that thete will he j a ta": on imports, especially automobiles. With this 1 1 neat ion Is involved that of i American exchange, which is Htlll agRinst 'Great Britain. U is hoped that the chancellor chan-cellor will he able to anticipate the action ac-tion of the Anglo-French commission In the T'nited States by procuring some special spe-cial accommodation in that country, per- haps in the form of hankers' loans. A tax op waees is being mooted. Although it Is generally admitted that it would I be costly to collect it. some advocates of ! such a tax Kuggest that It should be 1 collected by the government through stamps to he purchased by employers. A not her possible alternative for the direct di-rect taxation of workmen is the lowor-! lowor-! ing of the exemption limit of the Income ! irx which now stands at 160 pounds (1800). There will he much disappointment If ft genuine scheme for taxing war profits h nol proposed. The expectation in the tobacco trade, which has had a good year. ! is that there will be a rise in the duty on tobacco. The duty on tea. which is now eight tenths per pound, will be increased, in-creased, but sugar is expected to escape. PVotn a recent customs order it has ; been assumed, whether rightly or wrong-I wrong-I lv. that there will be an Increased duty j on spirits and also a rearrangement of ! the beer duties. j The export duty on coal probably will bo ruled out. The proposed tax on en- 'entailments would not be very remuner-atiVO, remuner-atiVO, hut cinema shows are freely mentioned men-tioned I ti this connection. ' , There is little doubt that there WfU be ' ;tn increase In the telegraphic charges ats I n result of the recommendations of the I retrenchment committee. Some suggest a i minimum charge of nine pence (IS cents) for nn ordinary telegram. Tt Is estimated that the annual revenue of the countrv under the present chaTgeu nnd imports. Including the postofflce rev-I rev-I en ue H 270.lfO.OnO pounds fSl.0.nno.0OOj With the new taxes It nfay perhaps aji Ofoach 400.noo.000 pounds (?2,000.00. -j 000) annually. |