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WE have received notification that the Inland Revenue authorities are about to challenge the right of the Chemical Society as a charitable institution to recover the income tax deducted at the source from the interest on its invested capital. For eighty years the Society has published freely new knowledge in chemistry, and has carried a financial burden which could not have been borne had not Governments in the past provided rent-free accommodation and relieved the Society from taxation.
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BAKER, H., THORPE, J. The Taxation of Research. Nature 117, 859 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117859b0
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