INCOME TAX
FAILURE TO MAKE RETURNS
L By Telegraph, Per Press Association
DUNEDIN, Aug. 16.
, The duty of taxpayers to furnish their own returns of land and income instead of waiting for the Commissioner of Taxes to make a defamit assessment and collect the money, was exemplified in the Police Court this morning.
Archibald Aitchison was fined £2 and cotss 10s, also the Crown solicitor’s fee of £3 3s, on a charge of failing, to furnish a return of land. On charges of failing to furnish returns of income, Robert Walter Johnston, and Parker and Dawson Ltd. were each fined £2, with costs.7os and solicitor’s fee of £2 2s.
The Magistrate said he had no option, since the offence was proved, but to. convict the defendants. He would impose the minimum penalty in each case.
The Magistrate said that the Taxation Department had laid itself open to cases of kind through not giving any warning of its intention to prosecute in the cases of failure -to make returns.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1929, Page 6
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168INCOME TAX Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1929, Page 6
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