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When Christmas was Shanghai’s Tax Bonanza Time

Posted: December 30th, 2015 | No Comments »

I posted the other day on the record tax receipts recorded in Shanghai on December 27th 1947. However the whole Christmas period was a pretty solid one for the taxman, even with hyperinflation boosting the numbers. One has to ask if they did so well on soft drinks on Christmas Eve in Shanghai what were the tax revenues on the hard liquor?

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