ANOMALY ALLEGED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20877, 1 September 1942, Page 2

ANOMALY ALLEGED

death duty UMiuttY SEAMEN NbT EXEMPT (P.A.) WELLINGTON, this day. “The same torpedo could kill, a merchant seaman and a soldier,” stated a member of the. Dqmimbh executive committee of the New ■Zealand Returned Services’ ( •Assbciatibh. when drawing the attbritibh of 'a recent meeting to the fact that the seaman’s estate would be liable for death duties while. that of the soldier would be exempt. - • . , j»- • . The committee was considering the reply of the Minister of Stamp Duties to the association’s representations that in cases where a -merchant kegman died as a iesult of enemy actibn the; estate should be exempt frorh death duties. The assbciatibh , submitted . that, m view of the , fac£ that The, estates bf deceased members of the, haval, military arid air forces were exempt from estate duty it was onlg fair and teasonable that the estates of merchant seamen whose ... deaths . occurred through enemy action should also exempt..;.,, ~ , ...... . The Ministers, in reply, stated that the representations would receive, the consideration of ■■, the Government whenever the question of extending the present exemptions was under review. , . . ■ ;