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Allowance For House Rents:
Also, national assistance payments include an allowance for house rents and rates (real estate taxes paid by lessees) that is not available under national insurance. Finally national insurance payments are determined solely by the contributor's family size with reference to his contribution record, while national assistance benefits are based on an amalgam of averaged allowances plus separate grants for a variety of specific ex-senditures.Despite all that is done, the housing shortage has remained severe. The basic reason is that rents of local authority houses are maintained at extremely low levels—rents in Scotland are approximately half as high as in England and Wales—and these low rents stimulate demand. Furthermore, income from rents in Sco meets less than one third of the local auth housing bill; as a result local taxes have t higher in proportion; and the number of houses built for sale is far lower in Sco than in England and Wales.
Perhaps you can see them being made in some center like La Chaux-de-Fonds or Le Lode, in Neuchatel Canton, both towns being famous in the industry. I was told in Switzerland that the U.S. customs rules permit the returning resident to bring in $500 worth of watches wholesale and that is figured at 75 per cent of the retail value, bringing one's purchase-price allowance to $666. Switzerland, I was further told, imposes an export allowance of five watches per person—but you may wish to check this point at the time of your visit.
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