Show 11 I SWITZER SWITZER METHOD METHODI 11 I Of Of TA GETTING TAX II II I Of all Of-all all time the ways was that lint have been heen devised de- de vis-ed vis to tu collect taxes Switzerland has hns adopted lh most novel no N Iso c assessors or 01 tax I o Q sworn statements or 01 rapacious boar boards s of taxation None oue of those ils c in Imi happy land hi Think ink of that yc ye C gloating whoso whose possessions posses posses- slit s to nothing at nt tho lie sight bight I ftC f i f nn on assessor sol None one In Iii tux tax gathering b l I Ic done on honor The Thc great reat thinkers o of Switzerland coin convened con cued some years ago alto agoto agoto to devise a 11 plan plait Intruding upon time the privacy of if citizens und and encroaching upon their heir personal Cr freedom v D By a master of oC genius the conclave o of or statesmen tut hit upon the tite scheme of setting up UI boxes i in 1 1 several cantons to receive the contributions of private ul citizen Time The fairness an and courtesy of ot this method appealed ll to er c everybody bod body and time thc tax boxes became e exceedingly l- l popular The Time government o had several thousand nd of them made out of lino enamelled CJ sheet lion Iron strong enough to lc resist the thc plunderIng plunderIng- han hands s sot of ot n tourists and large lars enough h to hold several years years' taxes Tho boxes WON wei put up UI on street corners Jiu Just t as mall maJl Uc and contributors u- u tors tois were wert Informed by a trim trini little placard to drop in their offering Insl in sl signed envelopes 1 so that the tax d de department ml might l t k keep p so sonic sono mo record oft of t the o run funds funIs ls Public indignation however how how- ever speedily removed these instructions Ions which suggested too rudely the tho ba basy baj of time the l s to suspect the be honesty of or some oina contributors Th Tho rule finally posted on tho the boxes was thai lint their dep deposits as they wished The rho succor S o of the was quickly quick quick- ly 1 1 demonstrated Tho jho boxes had not been I Installed a aca year ca r before remarkable ble lc prosperity ty was everywhere cr whelo evident dent throughout the fair fall Swiss land Every ery busl business bo boomed bank deposits inci in- in creased ci cased anti and alpenstocks camo came 1 into yog vogue e Nobody doubted that voluntary taxation was Avas the cause of the 0 In the thc nations nation's wealth Did it not s slain an to r r reason a Ol that citizens would 1 contribute c liberally to government gov So coffers ofer if IC government so treated everybody as g gentlemen gentleman So convincingly was this reasoning te l by b bh the h tax t boxes boxe that many man large private had to yield to the lie popular clamor and install similar re receptacles ye- ye for for their customers This movement mo began after aCte the Swiss people people peo peo- pie arose as a n. man and compelled the thc government gO to railroad anti and street car fares by hi b the the- he he- box system 5 It must be bc noted here that tho the extreme popularity of the boxes was due not alone alono to 10 their politeness but in a largo large measure also ulso to the tle economies economics of bookkeeping book book- keeping they l introduced duce Boxes were made mado l large ro enough nouh to hold 1 the tho accumulations tiC ac of ot several yea years IE as has h been saId eaid and what i Is li more tho time lawmakers lawmakers law law- makers elfi were prevailed upon to pass a statute foi forbidding bidding collectors to op open n any box until it was Mas full The Tho purpose of or this rule was obviously to dispense with a large larse corps of or petty pelt collectors collector account accountants and others Ion only tonly 1 twice In a decade deca e would tho lie people have to Incur the UC expense of counting an and amid t taxes tases ce It was estimated esti estt- mated that time tho saving a on the lie bookkeepIng bookkeeping book buol keeping Hem Item alone more moro than paid for forthe forthe forthe the sheet l Iron lion out of If which the boxes ha had ben been made mado This fact act became c a strong argument In I l favor 11 of o atc private collection boxes for or Swiss s economists were not nol slow to tu perceive C that lint butter clothes and beer heel would all bo be cheapened cheap cheap- cued ened h by ly dispensing with t time the cumbersome cumber I some Incubus of the lie double entry system tem lcm cm |