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Show Albania Plans To Tax Beds As Useless Luxury TIRANA. Albania. June 3 The Biblical tithe. Is the chief source of Albanian revenue and ha.s constituted until the present time a "single tax" policy. A n-'v fiscal policy is being Introduced and prominent among the many items proposed for taxation are beds, for In this primitive country a bod Is regarded ns d luxury. The origin hero of the tithe can he traced to the Turks, who for centuries have collected It from the people of Albania. It being a simple method of levying and a circumstance to which all the ifl-habltants ifl-habltants had become accustomed It was adopted by the new independent inde-pendent government as a means of revenue The new government, however, has not found it a very productive kind of tax because of the ability with which the taxpayers taxpay-ers are able to conceal their Incomes. In-comes. So skillful arc the tnhab tants in evadin? a large -hue- of the tithe, that i -v. me ill de of taxation are being put into effect. "The time Is still our chief source of revenut " said Kol Thacl. Albanian minister of finance, to the correspondent of The Associated Asso-ciated Press. "'e depend upon It for the current expenses of the government but we find thai it docs not render sufficient return to let our taxing slop there. We are already planning a new .scheme of taxation It i proposed propos-ed to place a lax on bods for to us the bed is nbJ an absolute necessity. ne-cessity. Our people have been used for centiiri-s t sleeping on the floor and continue 10 dp so to this day. Today we see that bed.t are gruduallv being Introduced b those who . an afford them, so we are proposing to place a tax on these beds as ;. n article qf luxury ' oo |