THE PROPERTY TAX.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2038, 4 September 1880, Page 3

THE PROPERTY TAX.

[By Tbubgbaph.] [fbom due own cobeespondbnt.J WELLINGTON. September 3. The following is the form of the new Property Tax schedule, adopted and printed to-day. It is still open to slight verbal alteration in the proof, but is expected to be issued on Monday : SCHEDXTXiE. Property assessment for the year ending 31st March, 1881. Property Assessment District : Name : Occupation : Address : In pursuance of the Property Assessment Act 1879, Amendment Act 1880, you are hereby required to make a return of all your property in the following form, and cause the same to be forwarded to the Deputy Commissioner of your district at on or before the , in default of which you will be liable to a penalty of £IOO, and to be assessed ard charged treble duty. John Spekeey, Commissioner. Property Tax Department, Wellington, Ist September, 1881. Total value of all ray interest in any £ lands or buildings after deducting all liabilities due by me thereon Total value of all my interests in any leases held by me after de- . ducting mortgages there- on, if any Total value of all other property belonging to me, including money owing to mo, mortgages, liens and bills of sale, household furniture, jewellery, plate, works of art, horses, cattle, sheep, or other live stock, produce, merchandise, stock-in-trade, plant, machinery, cash, cash in Bank, annuities, debentures, and every thing else I possess, except agricultural implements in actual use, life insurance policies, vessels, and shares in public companies, after deducting my just debts, for which I claim exemption ... £

Deduct fixed exemption ... ... £SOO Taxable value ... £ Declaration. I do hereby declare that the above statement is true and accurate in all particulars stated by me, according to the best of my judgment and belief. Dated this day of , 1880. Signature— It the liabilities on landed property exceeds its value the balance may be deducted from the value of other taxable property. The time for sending in returns has been extended to October 15th, as it was found on careful calculation to be impossible to depend on getting them in earlier, for it is very probable that a further extension to October 31st will subsequently bo accorded. I hear that over thirty thousand of the old schedules have come in filled up very satisfactorily, intelligently, and intelligibly, great pains evidently being taken by property owners to supply all the required information. Nearly all these, as well as a vast quantity of printed forms, are now of course so much waste paper.