ALTERNATIVES TO RATING.
With reference to the report in last night s "Star" of an address on local body indebtedness, given by Professor H. Beishaw to the Auckland Kotarians, I wonder if that gentleman would be good enough to give us, through your columns, an outline of the working and success overseas of the land value, increment tax and the local income tax as an additional source of revenue for local bodies. The has undoubtedly come for our local authorities to find some other source of revenue than increasing rates, since land is already taxed to the utmost; and, indeed, does ownership o 1 land denote ability to pay, which should be the basis of a tax? The two sources of revenue mentioned above are apparently very successfully tapped in Germany, the latter comprising a considerable proportion of their local body income. ADVANCE X-Z.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 224, 21 September 1929, Page 8
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144ALTERNATIVES TO RATING. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 224, 21 September 1929, Page 8
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