UNWARRANTED TAXATION
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—An astonishing example of the Unemployment Board's desire to cooperate with the Wellington City Council in making the new scheme of unemployed relief equal in payments the normal No. 5 scheme rates, was furnished to relief workers when those who have come under its operation drew their first wages. They found that the board has arranged for wages tax to be applied to the grant made by the City Council, which had been expiressl}' given to enable the relief workers to receive an amount near to No. 5 rates. It has now approximately 4000 relief workers (instead of 5000) to. find wages for, at a considerably lower weekly rate, and, to cap it all, the board's income is greater by almost £1,000,000 per annum, than during the period when the greater number of city relief workers received the full No. 5 rate. The demand for the tax is totally at variance with the council's intention to spare the unemployed from a reduction in the pittance they formerly received. Under' the old scheme a man with a wife and two children received £1 12s 6d a week or £6 10s a month. Under the new scheme (with tax deducted) he receives £1 10s 9d a week or £6 3s a month.— I am, etc., d. Mclaughlin, Secretary of the N.U.U. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 89, 12 October 1934, Page 8
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224UNWARRANTED TAXATION Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 89, 12 October 1934, Page 8
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