IDLING TO SAVE TAX
« MINERS WOEIi SHOETtIOUKS TO V KEEP DOWN INCOME. Three miners wore at Wigan each ordered to pay .£lO damages claimed for being absentees from work. The prosecuting counsel . said it was clear that the reason they had not v.orked \va9 because they did not want to. pay in- / come tax. The loss of output by their action was IT7 tons. One of the men frankly paid ho was not going to pay income tax. A second said ho gave/ his mother a weekly sum, out of which shn was to pay the tax, but owing to her not awakening him to go to work ho had not earned enough to justify taxation. The -third miner admitted that, ho could_ have worked more timo if ho had wished.— "Daily Mail." Of 400 Serbian doctors who wepo pr«ft> Rising before the war, there now remain less tluin' a hundred.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 49, 21 November 1919, Page 8
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151IDLING TO SAVE TAX Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 49, 21 November 1919, Page 8
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