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The retail dealer is not taxed, and, after the salt reaches his hands, its sale is unre- stricted. The profits on sales and the tax assessed thereon are stated at 9,680,000 taels per year ; but here, as in the land-tax, there is room for a very large increase of rev- enue by a more careful system of administration and ac- countability. It is believed by close observers that the Government might thereby, and without increasing the cost of salt to the consumer, secure a revenue of 20,000,- 000 ta...els, or at least double the amount that now finds its way into the imperial treasury.
THE LIKINc This is a tax upon internal commerce in transit, and is frequently regarded by foreigners as illegal ; but, as it 206 CHINA.
is imposed by imperial decree, the highest form of law known in China, it is hardly illegal, however disagreeable it may be to foreign merchants. By the Anglo-Chinese Treaty of Nanking, it was agreed that no further inland duties should be levied upon foreign goods, whether in British or native hands, than were then authorized.
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The retail dealer is not taxed, and, after the salt reaches his hands, its sale is unre- stricted. The profits on sales and the tax assessed thereon are stated at 9,680,000 taels per year ; but here, as in the land-tax, there is room for a very large increase of rev- enue by a more careful system of administration and ac- countability. It is believed by close observers that the Government might thereby, and without increasing the cost of salt to the consumer, secure a revenue of 20,000,- 000 ta...els, or at least double the amount that now finds its way into the imperial treasury.
THE LIKINc This is a tax upon internal commerce in transit, and is frequently regarded by foreigners as illegal ; but, as it 206 CHINA.
is imposed by imperial decree, the highest form of law known in China, it is hardly illegal, however disagreeable it may be to foreign merchants. By the Anglo-Chinese Treaty of Nanking, it was agreed that no further inland duties should be levied upon foreign goods, whether in British or native hands, than were then authorized.
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