INCOME TAX ON RACING CLUBS.
AUCKLAND, September 15. A meeting of representatives of ■country racing clubs was held to-day, and discussed the imposition of income tax on racing, trotting and hunt clubs using the> totalisator. The chairman, Mr A. Brdce, of Thames, described this tax, in riew of the fact that racing clubs were compelled to pay 2* per cent, on gross revenue and had contributed generously to patriotic objects, as unjust and inequitable. He was supported by Mr E. W. Alison and others present. It was finally resolved to co-operate with the Sports Protection League in the latter's efforts to prevail upon the Government io remove the tax.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3557, 18 September 1916, Page 3
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109INCOME TAX ON RACING CLUBS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3557, 18 September 1916, Page 3
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