ملف رقم ٨٦٨ لسنة ١٩٠٤، جزء ١ "شؤون قُنصلية: إعفاء المسؤولين القنصليين الأجانب من الضرائب الإمبراطورية والبلدية" [و‎‎١‎٨‎٨] (١١٣/٧٥)

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Liability of Foreign Consuls i n India to Imperial
and Municipal Taxation.
This very awkward and delicate question has
been lying dormant for many years and there seems to be
no good reason why it should be revived.
-After a very uareful examination of all the
issues, an interchange of views with tie India Office,
and a reference to the Law Officers -Lord Derby decided
in 1S75 that the claira\ of the Turkish Consul General
at Bombay to exemption from Imperial and municipal
taxation could not be resisted, in view of the terns of
Article VIII of the Treaty with Turkey of 1809.
The correspondence extended from 1872 to 1875-
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as will be seen by Mr. Haycock*s Precis annexed; and
terminated in an assurance to the Turkish Ambassador
that the Consul General would be exempted, and in an
instruction to the Bombay Government in the same sense.
In coning to JMs conclusion Her Majesty**
Government were evidentl^a^are of the far-reaching
consequences of their decision -and of the fact that.
strictly speaking, all Turkish Consuls in Her Majesty's
Dominions are entitled to claim similar exemption- even
though they do not avail themselves of the right;-whilst
all Powers possessing most-favoured-nation treatment
under Treaty -such as Persia and Italy- might, if so
ninclod, ask lor equal privileges.
Indeed