Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 158, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1926 — Page 7

OCT. 8, 1926

FRENCH TAX MAY SAVE TOURISTS ’ MANY MILLIONS Merchants Fear That Rich Americans Will Go to Germany. Iti * Times Special PARIS, Oct. 8. —France Is tom between two worries, first of losing her profitable tourish Influx and second of satisfying the almost gen-“ eral demand for a tax on foreigners. When parliament resumes its sessions next month one of the first matters of business to come before it will be a project to create the tax on foreigners. This proposed tax would follow a scale based on the thickness of the foreigner's wallet and the val.ue of the money in the land he comes from. Under the elaborate tax plan of M. Edmond Boyer, a member of the Chamber of Deputies, tourists would be taxed fropi their appearance and from the amount of money they spend every flay. For example: If an American tourist stops at a good hotel, goes to good restaurants, takes in a few of the plays and rents a car for excursions so that his average expenses are 300 francs a day, Ihe will be rated as spending 180,000 francs a year. He will be taxed accordingly, for a Frenchman with an income of 180,000 francs pays an annual income tax of 60,000 to 60,000 francs—an average of 25 francs a day. So, under M. Boyer's propose*} law, this American would be taxed 25 francs a day during the time he is in France. Three Classes There would be three classes, the third class paying the minimum tax of 15 francs a day. The unfortunate foreigners who live in France, either besause of their work or because of their health, would not be exempt. Only those foreigners com- j ing from countries whose mpney is wtorth less in the world markets than the franc would be temporarily excluded from the grasping of this law. But on the other hand there is a group of French business men who realize the value of tourist trade. They have raised the warning cry that France is driving the tourist away from her shores and that the French treasury will suffer. Germany. they declare, will soon be the favored spot with American travelers and German watering resorts. Swiss and Autsirian mountains and the castles of the Rhine will be visited next summer by thousands of Americans who resent the bad treatment to which they were subjected by French crowds this summer. In his annual report to the government the director of the National I

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Touring Office, which Is a depart- | ment of the ministry of public works, sounds the same warning. Germany, he declares. Is doing more .than any other European country to attract Americans. Germany spends more for tourist propaganda than does France and offers such added Inducements as a 25 per cent reduction on railway fares to I travelers landing in German ports, and the suppression of passport visas. Fear Death-Blow Officials of this Government department, in their reports, do not attempt to conceal their fears that Germany will deal a death-blow to France’s great tourist trade If the tjyeatened tax on foreigners Is put Into law ar.l unless something Is done to simplify the red-tape which binds the travellers’ passports. j Switzerland and the Scandinavian i countries are after American trade. I offering the double attraction of j staple currency and a warm wel-! come from race which are prover-1 bially hospitable and are glad to | see foreigners within their frontiers, j This year there may have been a total of a quarter of a million Ameri-I can travellers in France. The Na- I tional Office of Touring has figured | out an ingenious table which shows that the average spent by each was $1,028. These tourists, thus, left a j quarter of a billion dollars In France/ which represents perhaps the greatest single item In the "ex- j port” side of France’s trade balance. France fears now that this in- i flow of gold will be stopped just at j the time when it is most needed to j stabilize the franc. In a copper atom are twenty-nine 1 electrons, each one moving in its j orbit with a speed of about 39,000 I miles’a second. _

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