Show EVADE INCOME TAX IN DEVIOUS WAYS income and other taxes are very heavy especially in great britain where they are 22 to 25 per cent of very moderate incomes consequently many efforts are made to evade them legally by a quirk in the shipping laws a yacht owner living in his boat la Is not taxed and one such homo may be seen nt 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 with its smaller sister bister herro berm just east cast of guernsey in the channel islands curiously this lease Is taken from the british government nt at an absurd figure amounting to perhaps 1 a week and if 1 the novelist lives there six months in the year he may live in england itself the other six months and entirely escape the income bu burden aden by virtue of ills his investment he may fly his own flag and assume many feudal privileges of the ancient duchy of normandy tor for these islands are a part of that dukedom there are no taxes on tobacco spirits on gun licenses nor has he a tax to pay to his local government herm next nest door also was leased in a similar has a curious history of its lease to prince blucher of waldstedt Wald stadt germany gre great at grandson of blucher the general of the battle of waterloo the late prince blucher was strongly attracted to the australian kangaroo and bred them on nenn herm the island Is now in its original state and the kangaroos have vanished |