TAXATION BURDEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 217, 12 September 1940, Page 5

TAXATION BURDEN.

RAILWAYMEITS PROTEST.

"MISPLACEMENT OF TRDSI." XAPIER, tii« day. Kapler railway workene have entered * prolyl against the reeeot order of the Arbitration Court authorising a 5 per cent increase In award wage*. A. meeting of the Enginedrh-*™, Firemen's and Cleaners' Association haa j|«a*sed a reflation making a "moet emphatic protest to tbe Government apainst the recent imposition of addili.mal taxation on wa.ges, which i<6 now (equivalent to 20 per cent, made up a* follow*:—Sale* tax, 10 per <«nt; «ocial **\-urity tax. 5 per cent, and national j«*rurity tax .i per cent, -with en »ddiki'.na] deduction of 5 per cent for superannuation.™ J l*he resolution aVo contained a daiie* \he ji««>r»cialion'V helief iliat "1 , , is dearlv evident that th* tru*-t ji]a<-pd in ihe Labour Governnjent {ha* Iwn n:i»-p]arc>d. judging by the heavy ari(i jnoquitJibk' harden w.t u]>r>n the shoulder*: of thrw-e whom the Governmonl ws> pk*<3»od to prol<vt from #xiff:in™ a lower Mansard of living. W# sJ'o consider thai tlie Prime Minister ha* been V>a<ilv mirinfoimcd ■nhen h* paMirfT 'laK-d that the inrreatmr-«M>riee f.f rr«n]uiio|v ]<»«***<l t<y railtvjirtiieji and ••".her arc not r<»s»r<-».pjitaljve of ithe mar* of tbe workew."