Word: likin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BARTLETT E. S. MARTIN L. P. MARVEL Deacons RALPH F. Trustees LR. H. MARVEL LIKIN ROLAND MULLIKIN LEVI E. REEVER JOHN E. SATCHELL C. ARTHUR PERRY M. EARLE STAFFORD A. G. SMITH JOHN F. CHAPLAIN FRANK E. COLLINS T. J. SLAUGHTER...
...troops in the field, like the sap in the trees, are stilled. Last week rebel troops were sufficiently frostbound to allow T. V. Soong, China's able, Harvard-trained Finance Minister to promulgate a law for which he and foreign traders have been agitating for years. The likin or tariff on goods shipped from one large town to another, will be abolished Dec. 31. Small in itself, red tape and the juggling of likin rates by provincial collections to allow for "squeeze" have held up and reduced the shipment of goods, have helped stifle the development of China...
...tariff is not to take the place of the abolished likin. Minister Soong announced last week that provincial governments will have as a substitute a new "business tax" to be levied on a sliding scale of 1/5 to 1/10 of 1% of capital invested in the respective provinces...
...France still has a form of likin in the octroi or market tax collected on goods brought into big cities. In Italy, II Ducc abolished a similar tax (dazio consumo) year...