OVERHAUL NEEDED
The present burden of taxation called for an overhaul as a matter of common honesty. It was undermining our social and economic structures, declared Mrs. Knox Gilmer, Liberal candidate for Wellington North, in the Sydney Street Schoolroom last night
Mrs. Gilmer said that taxation per head of the population had risen in New Zealand from £19 14s lOd in 1937 to £23 Is 3d in 1938. Under this burden of taxation it was impossible for private enterprise to establish new businesses or to expand existing ones. It was crippling those small people who wanted to get on. Why did they want to have businesses of their own? Everyone wanted to be his own master. (Applause.)
New Zealariders today, Mrs. Gilmer added, realised that it was only through private enterprise, subject to reasonable control, that permanent employment could be created and maintained.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 82, 4 October 1938, Page 6
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143OVERHAUL NEEDED Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 82, 4 October 1938, Page 6
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