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Tax clearance certificate
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Tax clearance certificate

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Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
Dates
December 6, 1938 (indexed as 1938)
Level
item
Scope & content
1 horizontal page, single-sided. Folded once horizontally and once vertically. 5 green, brown and white fiscal stamps with value of 30 groschen each affixed sideways in a horizontal row along bottom edge. Scrawled annotation in red coloured pencil at top right corner. Issued by the Tax Office of Brigittenau, Vienna, and stamped by the Foreign Exchange Office. Document is a tax clearance certificate for Salomon Heiss, Sala Hermann, and their daughter Erika, certifying that all outstanding taxes have been paid. Narrative: The tax clearance certificate was part of the bureaucratic machinery of Nazi Germany; it was key to the implementation of the Reich Flight Tax, which systematically stripped Jews fleeing Nazi persecution of their assets. Until October 1941, when Jewish emigration from the Third Reich became illegal, proof of payment of the Reich Flight Tax via the tax clearance certificate was necessary to legally emigrate. The percentage of funds confiscated increased over time, from 20% in 1934 to 96% in 1939. In order to flee, the Heiss family surrendered at least 90% of their assets to Nazi Germany. They fled Nazi-occupied Vienna in 1938, after Salomon was arrested and detained in Dachau for 3 days. They survived the war in Shanghai, immigrated to Israel in 1949, and eventually settled in Montreal.
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Tax clearance certificate : Paper : Printed, Handwritten : Ink; Coloured Pencil : Beige, Black, Blue, Green, Brown, White, Red ; Ht: 5 3/4 in. x W: 8 1/4 in.
Genre / form
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Finanzamt Brigittenau WienWien6. Dez 1938Steuerliche Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung(Gültigkeitsdauer: 2 Monate ab Ausstellung)Wien XX.17.6.1938Devisenstelle Wien(Dienststelle)(Ort und Datum)(Aktenzeichen)(Straße)Gegen die Ausreise des(r)(Beruf oder Stand, Vor- und Zuname)(Wohnung)und seiner Ehefraugeboren amund seiner Kinderhabe ich keine Bedenken.ÖSTERREICHSTEMPELMARKE30 GROSCHENRead automatically; may contain mistakes.
Language
German
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