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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>''Black-List the Tax Shirkers'' is a letter written by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] published in the [[Daily Express]] on 7 december 1926.<br />
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== Black-List the Tax Shirkers ==<br />
[[File:DExp-1926-12-07-p8-black-list-the-tax-shirkers.jpg|thumb|200px|right|[[Daily Express]] (7 december 1926, p. 8)]]<br />
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''From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle''<br />
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To the Editor of the "Daily Express."<br />
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Sir, — The hotels on the South Coast are at present half empty, while those of the Riviera are. I believe, filling fast. ls there not some sort of moral obligation in these days of economic pressure for those who make money in this country to spend it in this country?<br />
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I would go the length of stopping by law this dangerous leakage. Let there be a heavy poll tax upon those who go abroad, unless they can give good reasons of health or of business for their absence from this country.<br />
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As to the shirkers who live in the Channel Islands, or abroad, in order to escape taxation, and so put a heavier burden upon the shoulders of their more honest and patriotic fellow-countrymen, their names should be black-listed in the "Gazette," and it still recalcitrant, they should be deprived of all rights of citizenship.<br />
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The times are serious, and drastic methods are needed.<br />
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.<br /><br />
Crowborough, Sussex.<br />
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