LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2816, 6 July 1916, Page 6

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DO THEY TAX THEMSELVES? , Sir,—l shall be obliged if you will inform me whether Ministers of the Government and members of Parliament are ' liablo for income tax. I am sure it must bo a great honour and privilege to be able to frame laws to mulct "the other fellow" in abnormal taxation, and by "the other fellow's" eilorts and sacrifices covcr one's self with glory and satisfaction with the know-, ledge that such patriotic and disinterested action is helping to bring the war to « a close, and that we are the people and the observed of all observers! Vide. Aesops lable of the "Boys and tbe Frogs. Also the immortal William, 'He jests at sears who never felt a wound."—l am, etc., ~, . . , INK UMTAX. Chnstchurch, July i, [Neither Ministers nor members oiParliament are specially exempt from • taxation. As the honorarium of members is .£3OO a year and the income tax exemption is precisely the sanie amount, members would not be called on to pay income tax unless they happened to bo possessed of some other source of income.}