25 SEPTEMBER 1915, Page 2

The new taxes stated in their briefest form are as

follows : Income Tax raised by 40 per cent. and levied on lower incomes than before; Super Tax increased on incomes over £8,000; a special tax of 50 per cent.. on war profits; duties on tea, tobacco, cocoa, coffee, chicory, and dried fruits raised by 50 per cent., and on motor-spirit and patent medicines by 100 per cent.; a new ad valorem duty of 34 per cent. on imported motor-cars, motor-bicycles, cinema films, cloaks, watches, musical instruments, plate-glass, and bats ; abolition of half- penny postage and sixpenny telegrams; an increase in letter, parcels, telegraph, and telephone charges.