first time taxation of all wages of employees of the State, the provincial and communal authorities, and railway, tramway and shipping companies (Decrees Nos. 1660 and 1661, November 16 and December 21, 1922), deducting on an average 10 per cent. ; it has instituted fresh taxation of the incomes of small farmers, and maintained the tax of 20 lire on vineyard produce despite the reduction in prices. III.-CusToMs PoL1cv. The Fascist Minister of Finance loves to declare that he is of '' Free Trade leanings,'' and his apologists have found proof of this in the suspension of the duty on sugar, in the correction of an erroneous duty on flour, and in the acceptance by decree of certain reductions on foodstuffs proposed in Parliamentary Committee. The proof of the contrary is found in the following facts: The Fascist Government has refused (a) to suppress the duty on grain; (b) to reduce the duty on rice; (c) to suppress the protective duty on flour; (d) to reduce the duties on grapes and wine ; (e) has refused all proposed reductions on textiles, wool and cotton; (f) has not yet carried out the request made by resolution of the Chamber for an enquiry into wool duties; (g) has not given effect to the resolution of the Chamber in favour of suppressing the duty on pig iron, modifying the premiums on manufactures, and correspondingly reducing the duties on all metal and engineering products; {h) has not yet put into execution the resolution of the Chamber in favour of the suppression of the duty on copper and its derivatives; (i) has negatived similar proposals· in regard to agricultural machinery, clocks, etc. ; butter, cheese, soap ; oil ; cement, glass, and other building material; chemical and medicinal products, etc. 18 Biblioteca Gino Bianco
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