Show skeletons etona are baffling paris taxation experts paris taxation experts of the tha french republic are baffled by M jean lavalette who keeps a little shop in the rue de decole de medicine cine in in paris skeletons half skeletons skulls all sections reads the sign outside the shop A real skull hanging outside makes it plainer Is M lavalette a producer this is important for on january 1 the turnover tax on retail sales was abolished and replaced by a 6 per cent tax on manufactured articles in the last stage of their production M lavalette mounts skeletons building them up out of parts does that make him a producer 0 one ne way out would be for the customs to collect the tax as most of the skeletons come fro from i abroad but there is no fixed scale of charges for skeletons so how much is 6 per cent M lavalette thinks that the tax collectors might as well give it up his total earnings for last month were 15 francs about 93 cents |