Cost of living in German towns

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Identifikator:: 866449027

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93831

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Cost of living in German towns

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1908

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (LXI, 548 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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STASSFURT. 445 lumber room. The rent paid for such a dwelling together with the garden is only £6 125. per year. The works management owns about 200 such dwellings. Rates and taxes are not included in rents. In Prussia all annual incomes exceeding £21 are assessed for the purposes of local taxation and annual incomes exceeding £15 for State taxation. The law prescribes that local income tax shall bear a definite ratio to the State income tax and the local super-tax at Stassfurt was in 1905 155 per cent, of the State tax, this 155 per cent, including 15 per cent, for the district rate. The following table shows the State and local income tax payable in Stassfurt by persons with incomes between £21 and £120 per annum :— Incomes between State Income Tax. £21 and £33 £33 and £45 £45 and £52 10s. £52 10s. and £60 £60 and £67 10s. £67 10s. and £75 £75 and £82 10s. £82 10s. and £90 £90 and £105 £105 and £120 inclusive Exempted Exempted 6s. 9s. 12s. 16s. 21s. 26s. 31s. 36s. Local Super-tax. Total Income Tax. S. d. 3 9 6 3 9 4 13 11 18 7 24 10 32 7 40 4 48 0 55 10 £ s. 0 3 0 6 0 15 1 2 d 9 3 4 11 7 1 10 2 0 10 2 13 7 3 6 4 3 19 0 4 11 10 Since the sister town of Leopoldshall lies within the borders of Anhalt, its system of taxation is different from that of Stassfurt, but as a large number of Stassfurt workmen live at Leopoldshall reference to the system of. taxation there seems called for. In Anhalt a “taxation unit” is prescribed for each class of income, and a multiple of this unit is levied for the State tax and in addition a different multiple, variable from year to year, for the local tax. Thus in 1905 the multiple for the State tax was 23 and for the municipal 12, so that working men living in Leopoldshall paid annual taxes as follows :— Incomes between £30 and £37 10s. inclusive £37 10s. and £45 £45 and £52 10s. „ £52 10s. and £60 £60 and £70 £70 and £80 £80 and £90 £90 and £100 Taxation Unit. d. ? 34 f ? State Income Tax. 8. d. 3 5 4 7 5 9 6 11 9 2 11 6 13 10 17 3 Local Super-tax. s. d. 1 10 2 5 3 0 3 7 4 10 6 0 7 2 9 0 Total Income Tax. S. d. 5 3 7 0 8 9 10 6 14 0 17 6 21 0 26 3 While thus workmen residing at Leopoldshall pay considerably less in taxes than those residing at Stassfurt, it should be added that school fees have to be paid in the former town, whilst in the latter education is free. Hence it often happens that workmen live at Leopoldshall until their children are old enouo’h to attend school and then cross the frontier to Stassfurt. Retail Pkices. Groceries and other Commodities. The working man of Stassfurt buys his food almost exclusively from the small tradesman. The “ multiple ” shop does not exist at all, and even the co-operative stores cannot exist independently but are a branch of the society at Bernburg, a neighbouring town, and the same is true of Leopoldshall. The explanation may be that comparatively few working people pay ready money, yet while the small tradesmen give credit they complain everywhere of the

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