1966 incoming Belgian taxed mail in the taxe fraction era: 15 Sept 1966 postmarked surface mailed minature cover sent from BRUSSELS to guest at Dan Hotel in TEL AVIV & franked 3F - but this was short-paid & marked for tax by the Belgian post office using the new taxe fraction method instituted as of 1 Jan 1966 by the Universal Postal Union's (UPU) Vienna convention, of the sending postal administration indicating the amount owed as twice the deficiency in the numerator and the country's base letter surface postage rate in the denominator - here the cover was deficient 3c for the 6c rate, and charged 6c as the tax.

In Israel this ratio was multiplied by the country's period base letter surface postage rate of 30 agorot, yielding a calculated postage dues tax amount of 30ag, levied on 4 Oct at TEL AVIV-5 (head post office) using a 0.30L 1962 overprinted Zodiac stamp (Ba #238) & backstamped 7 Oct transit-arrival at TEL AVIV-87 (Nordau Street branch post office, which serviced the hotel); the manuscript number "3219" is the hotel's post office box to which such taxed mail was accumulated; slit open at bottom.


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