SOCIAL SECURITY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 81, 30 October 1939, Page 4

SOCIAL SECURITY

CONTRIBUTION DUE NOVEMBER 1 In this issue appears an intimation from the Commissioner of Taxes that an instalment of the Registration Fee becomes due on Ist Novembers and that on the same date there also falls due the third instalment of the Social Security charge on incomsk other than salary or wages derived during the year ended 31st March, 1939. Payment may be tendered at any Money Order Office. The quarterly Registration Fee is payable by all male persons of 20 years of age or over. Failure to pay renders defaulters liable, on summary conviction to a fine of £~). In addition, a penalty of sixpence pep*"" month automatically accrues if payment is not made within one month of the due date. Any employer wlv**~ employs for more than Seven days a person who is more than one month in arrear with an instalment of the Registration Fee, is liable on .summary conviction to a fine of £20. Employers may deduct the amount,*--of any overdue registration fees from the wages payable to employees. The Social Security charge on income other than salary or wages is payable at the rate of one shilling in the. pound, by all persons male and female, who have attained the ! age of sixteen years, other than those in receipt of a Avar pension in respect of total disablement. A uenaity V of 10 per cent accrues on the amount of any instalment not paid within one month ot' the due date. Further information may be obtained at any Money Order OfTic.e, or from the Com missioner of Taxes, Land and Income Tax Department, Wellington.