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Show INCOME TAX IN PRU8SIA I Vlce-Consul-General Charles A. Rls-dorf. Rls-dorf. of Frankfort, writes that, as compared com-pared with the preceding year, tho number of taxpayers in Prussia Increased In-creased in 1908 by 492.850, or over 9 per cent of the total number. The increase in-crease in the amount of assessed income in-come during the same time was $297,-640,480, $297,-640,480, or 9 1-2 per cent of the total, and the increase in the amount of taxes assessed in 1907. The number of personal-tax payers increased from one-twelfth of the entire population in 1892 to nearly, one-sixth in 1908. The average Income of the personal-tax payers has been gradually growing less on account of the Increase from tho lower grades. |