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of doing so will only be good if Governments do not take up large 
quantities of the available money for loans for other expenditure. 
A great part of the present taxation is, however, imposed for 
the purpose of what are called social services, for the maintenance 
of the unemployed and for other purposes which have nothing to 
do with the war. 
Taxation in this country per head of the population is higher 
than in any other country with which our Industries are in com- 
petition. This does not mean, of course, that each person in this 
country pays more than any person in any of the other countries 
concerned, but that the whole of the taxes levied divided by the 
number of people in the country gives a higher quotient. 
The following table shows roughly, not how much each person 
in the different countries named does pay, but how much he would 
pay if the total taxes were evenlv divided amongst all. 
TAXATION PER HEAD (excluding Local Taxation). 
Statement bv the Chancellor of the Exchequer—4th November. 1930. 
COUNTRY. 
United Kingdom and | 
Northern Ireland. 
france van ae 
Germany aie res 
Relgium ven al 
[taly ... whe a 
[Mnited States of 
America. 
Population 
(latest 
estimate). 
45.754.000 
41 130.000 
64,132,000 
(excluding 
Saar), 
2 906 000 
41 .488.000 
123.305.0400 
Estimated Taxation. 
£718,080.000 (including 
tax on motor vehicles) 
French francs 
51,379,033,137 (in- 
cluding sinking fund 
taxes (actiaal) 1929). 
R.M. 10,265,800 000 (ex- 
cluding taxes levied 
by States). 
Belgian francs 
8.300.600.0060 
Lire 17.914.000.000 ... 
$3,702,000,000 (exclud- 
ing States taxes) 
Date 
1930-31 
1930-21 
1020-21 
1020 
1020-21 
1020-31 
Taxation per 
head. 
£15 13s. 10-8d 
French francs 
1,249 
£10 2a 0d. * 
R.M. 160 
£7 178 0d * 
Belgian francs 
1,039 
£5 14s. 0d.* 
Lire 431-7 
£4 148. 0d. * 
$30 
£6 8s. 04.* 
* Calenlated at average rate of exchange for 1st nine montha 1930. 
Taxes are not divided equally. Not only do some of the 
people pay most of the taxes, but to a great extent people who 
pay most of the taxes obtain no benefit from some of the purposes 
to which the taxes are applied. All benefit by Police protection,