Show EVADE INCOME TAX IN DEVIOUS WAYS income and other taxes are very heavy especially in great britain where they are 22 to 25 per cent of very tery moderate nto incomes consequently many efforts are matle made to evade them legally lly by a quirk in the shipping laws a baclit owner living in his boat Is not taxed and one such home li oine may be seen at monte carlo whore where it has been moored for years the author compton mackenzie well known novelist has leased the tiny island of jethru which lies with its smaller sister herm just east of guernsey in the channel islands curiously tills this lease Is taken from the british government at an absurd figure amounting to perhaps 1 a week and it if the novelist lives there six months in the year lie he may live in england itself the other six months and entirely escape the income burden by virtue of his Invest investment went he may fly hla his own flag and assume many feudal privileges of the ancient duchy of normandy for these islands are a part of that dukedom there anra no taxes on tobacco spirits on gun licenses nor hns has he a tax to pay to his local government next nest door also was leased in a i similar way and hils has a curious history of its ita lease to prince blucher of waldstedt Wald stadt germany grent great grandson of blucher ni ucher the gene general ral of the battle of waterloo the late inte prince blucher was strongly attracted to the australian kangaroo and bred them on herin the island Is now in its original state and the kangaroos have vanished |