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Poll Opposes Property Taxes Public Favors Income Tax people's" preferences such as deductions for charity, local taxes and medical expenses. Some 40 per cent expressed this view, as against 34 per cent who voted for a valueadded tax, a form of national sales tax, and 10 per cent who would raise income tax rates. The poll was commissioned by the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. President Nixon assigned to this group, largely made up of members of Congress and local officials the task of developing recommendations on ways of relieving the property tax burden. It is to report later this year.

At one time the Nixon administration indicated great inter- WASHINGTON (AP) You might not have believed this last April IS, but a poll has concluded the federal income tax is Americans' first choice as the fairest revenue levy. The local property tax was rated in the same government-sponsored poll as the least fair. But the 2,195 persons interviewed as a sample of the na-' tion's taxpayers apparently think the income tax could be improved on. They were asked what would be the best way to raise substantially more money, if the federal government were forced to do so The preferred method was to close tax loopholes, even to the extent of cutting "little f'H f. WE'VE MELTED AIR CONDITIONER PRICES! est in the value-added tax, but it appeared to have backed away somewhat.

The poll findings, if they really represent public opinion, could provide support for a proposal by leading congressional Democrats to bring up nearly all tax preferences over a three-year period for reconsideration and repeal unless Congress decides to keep them. The pollsters offered those interviewed a choice of methods to help reduce local property taxes. In the replies, 32 per cent opted for the value-added tax. 14 per cent for an increase in individual income taxes. But 44 per cent said the government do neither.

Replying to the question about the fairest tax, 36 per cent chose the federal income tax, 33 per cent state sales taxes, 11 per cent the state income tax and only 7 per cent the property tax. When asked to name the least -fair tax, 45 per cent chose the local property tax, 19 per cent the federal income tax and 13 per cent each state sales and -local property It's Not London PORT MORESBY, New Guinea (AP) Perry Kwan, new speaker of the New Guinea legislature, says he won't wear the traditional Westminster wig during sessions "because New Guinea is not London we want to give the impression here of a young, modern parliament." 24 Btl. Cases Coca Cola AKclttd Pru Wlrtphoto AWAITING MATCH World chess champion Boris Spassky, shown here playing with his son Vasya, was reported in Reykjavik, Iceland, awaiting the arrival of U. S. chess champion Bobby Fischer.

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