Show EVADE INCOME TAX I IN DEVIOUS WAYS WAYS' Income and other taxes are very heavy especially in Great Britain where they are 22 to 25 per cent of ot otI ver very moderate incomes Consequently Consequently Consequently Conse Conse- many efforts are made to I evade them legally By a quirk inthe In Inthe Inthe the shipping laws a n yacht acht owner living In his boat is not taxed and andone andone one such home may be seen at Monte Carlo where It has been moored for years The author Compton Mackenzie well-known well novelist has leased the tiny Island of which lies I with Its smaller sister Herm Herra Just east of Guernsey In the Channel islands Is is- Inn lands s. s Curiously this lease is taken from the British government go at an absurd figure figure amounting amounting to perhaps 1 a week weel week and and If It the novelist lives I there six sit months In the year he may live In England Itself the other six months and entirely escape the Income Income In In- I come burden I By virtue of his Investment he heI j I may fly his own flag fing and assume I i many feudal privileges of the ancient ancient an an- I clent duchy of Normandy for these Islands orp are a n part nf of that dukedom There are no taxes on tobacco spirits spirits spir spir- its on gun licenses nor has hos he a tax to pay to his local government Herm next nest door also was leased In fn a n similar way and has a curious history of its lease to Prince Blucher Bluch Bluch- er of Germany great great- grandson of Blucher Bluche the general of the battle of Waterloo The late Prince Blucher was strongly attracted attract attract- ed to the Australian kangaroo and bred them on Herm Berm The Island isnow Is Isnow Isnow now in Its original state and the kangaroos kangaroos kan kan- have vanished |