In a financial debate in the French Chamber on Monday
M. Cadieux, as we read in the Times, made some interesting comparisons between French and British taxation. The present French system, he said, did sot exempt the financially weaker classes, as was done in Great Britain. A French peasant farmer, for example, with 6160 of income from different sources of capital and labour, paid in taxation to the State front 66 to £8. or about 4 per cent. A small British farmer in the same position paid nothing. A French official with a salary of 6160 paid 2 per cent, to the State, while an Englishman in a corresponding position paid nothing. Higher incomes were more justly taxed in Great Britain. A. French income of 62,000 a year, with £800 of salary, paid se per cent., while the same income in Great. Britain paid 7 per cent. A French income of .£12,000 a year, of which £4,000 was derived from business profits, 64.000 from landed property, and f4.000 from investments in stocks in France, paid less than 4 per cent., while in Great Britain it paid 10 per cent.. He was convinced that it was the duty of the Government to tax the wealthier climes more heavily.
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