Show EVADE INCOME TAX IN DEVIOUS WAYS income and other taxes are very heavy especially in great britain where th they ey are 22 21 to 25 05 per cent 0 ot very moderate incomes consequently many efforts are made to evade them legally by a quirk in the shipping laws a yacht owner owne r living in his boat Is not taxed and one such home may be seen at monte carlo where it has been moored for years the author compton mackenzie well known novelist has leased the tiny island of jethru which lies iles with its smaller sister herm just east cast of guernsey in the channel islands curiously this lease Is taken from the british government at an absurd figure amounting to perhaps 1 I 1 a week and it if the novelist novell note list st lives there six months in the year he be may live in england itself the other six months and entirely escape the income burden by virtue of his investment he nifty may fly his own has flag and assume many feudal privileges of the ancient duchy of normandy for these islands are a part of that dukedom there are no taxes on tobacco spirits on gun licen licenses seq nor has lie he a n tax to pay to his local government herm next door also was leased in a similar way and lias has a curious history of its lease to prince pinch bauch er ot of waldstedt Wald stadt germany great grandson of blucher Bluch cr the general of the battle batlle of waterloo the late ate prince blucher was strongly strong gly attracted to the australian kangaroo and bred them on herm the island Is now in its original state stat e and t the lie kangaroos have vanished |