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From: Rudolf Hanel (ed.), Compass. Finanzielles Jahrbuch 1919. Vol. 2, Vienna 1918, 96ii

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    War profits and war profit tax

    Significant profits were accrued from the war industry in Vienna, prompting the government in 1916 to introduce a staggered war profit tax. This measure increased wage costs and inflation and caused a drop in profits in the last year of the war, considerably dampening industrialists’ enthusiasm for the war.