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File 868/1904 Pt 1 'Consular: Exemption of Foreign Consular Officers from Imperial and Municipal Taxation' [169r] (37/113)
The record is made up of 1 item (53 folios). It was created in 19 Aug 1884-18 Apr 1911. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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I >' 2 ii directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th ul
timo relating to a claim fcy the German Consul General
at Calcutta to exemption from municipal taxes.
I am to unclose, for the confidential information
of Ivir . oecretary Brodrick, a copy of a Memorandum fur
nished by the Commercial Attache to His Majesty's Em
bassy at Berlin in March 1903 with regard to the
rights and immunities of Foreign Consular Officers in
une German Empire. It will be observed from this
Memorandum that, in the absence of reciprocal treat
ment abroad, - and most States have Consular Conven
tions with Germany in which provision is expressly
made for such reciprocity, - Foreign Consular Officers
are not deemed to be exempt from the payment of direct
taxes, either bo the State or Commune. As German
Consuls in this country are not exempted from taxa
tion, except in so far as regards Income Tax on their
etary of State,
official
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Part 1 concerns exemption of Foreign Consular officers from Imperial and Municipal Taxation. It contains:
- correspondence regarding the claim of the Consul-General for France at Calcutta to exemption from Municipal taxation;
- privileges to the Persian and Turkish Consuls-Generals in the matter of Imperial customs duty and municipal taxation;
- claim of the Imperial German Consul-General at Calcutta to exemption from the payment of Municipal taxes;
- request of the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador that their Consuls in India may be exempted from payment of taxes;
- claim of the United States Consul at Rangoon (Yangon, Myanmar) to exemption from municipal taxation.
The principal correspondents are the Consul-General for France at Calcutta; the Persian Consul-General; the Imperial German Consul-General at Calcutta; the Foreign Department of the Government of India; the Secretary of State for India; the Foreign Office; and the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. . Some of the letters from Consul-General for France at Calcutta are in French.
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- IOR/L/PS/10/30/1
- Title
- File 868/1904 Pt 1 'Consular: Exemption of Foreign Consular Officers from Imperial and Municipal Taxation'
- Pages
- 151r:182v, 184r:194v, 195v:200v, 204r:206v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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