Show I GERMANS B y DEVISE L ono ODD y TAXES TAX VS TO Vi FlU FILL fl EM EMPTY TY TREASURIES TS By B y Lm i B B BUH Rhineland eland Villages Study To Make Men P Py ty y Extra Because Tiey Tey Happen To Be COLOGNE May 19 19 By 19 Dy By The Associated Press How How to tax I 9 bachelor bachlor for tor being a bachelor Is puzzling a number of ot communities In the Rhineland especially in lo- lo localities lo localities where the authorities ar are for tor the most part married men with families The little town of ot Repelen near the Dutch bordet bordel decided simply to call a 0 spade a 0 Spade and declared all on out-and-out out bachelor tax ot of 2000 marks a month Young men between 18 and 23 years of ot age were permitted a 0 25 per cent re- re rebate rebate re rebate bate and complete Immunity was pro tor for such unman led chap chape chapalas las Ios had little or no Income The latter clause clouse w wrecked recke reeked 1 the scheme i ifor for it ran the tho to town ton n amuck ot of o the federal finance ministry at Berlin whIch ruled the Income tax was as a aI aRole asole asole sole Role and lt It of ot the central I authorities Therefore the mints mints- try minla-try try decreed neither no any ony other German community could levy again against an Individuals s earn earn- earnings earnings ings its little Hamborn lamborn profited by neighbor s a experience and ond so dl- dl dis disguised guised the tax that It comes conies undo the head ot of per capita assess assess- assessments ments monts yet reads rends Tor Bachelors Bachelor Only bet between een the lines The city fathers wisely avoided avold- avold td ed making any reference to e a mans man's man 3 income Other places are figuring nn nfl dodging the tho federal objections hy by byl making their bachelors subject merely to a 0 special residence tax |