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vii. manufacturing industries.
The control, when the old beet-tax was in force, was intended merely
for ascertaining the weight of the beet employed. Since the introduction
of the consumption-tax, it has been transformed into a complete control of the
factories, so that no sugar can be taken from these places without the
knowledge of the control-officials, who have to note the amount, etc., so removed.
Every raw-sugar factory and sugar-refinery works is under the immediate
supervision of a First Controller, who is assisted by a greater or lesser number of
controllers. The chief control of the sugar manufacture is exercised by the
Royal Control Board. The Royal Ordinance now in force respecting the taxation
of sugar is dated October 11, 1907.
Karpalund Sugar Factory.
The principal cause of the rapid rise of the sugar industry in Sweden is
to be found in the very considerable protective duty on the imported
article. Even after the introduction of the consumption-tax, the three
sugar-factories last erected, viz., in the island of Öland, and in the Läns of
Östergötland and Västergötland, have enjoyed a certain reduction in the amount
of the tax to be paid. The establishment of new factories, too, is
facilitated by the regulation issued in 1893, that factories which are opened at a
distance of more than 30 km from another factory which is in operation,
will be considered as having a lesser yield per weight for the first five
years, and so will pay a lower tax than older factories. Altogether, four
factories have enjoyed such a reduction of tax.
Owing to the rise of a home-production of sugar, the import of this
article, which was formerly very great, has almost entirely ceased, but the
consumption has increased to such a.n extent that, nowadays, Sweden is
among the number of the chief sugar-consuming countries of Europe, being
surpassed only by England and Denmark.
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