EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT CHARGE

Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1931, Page 7

EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT CHARGE

FIRST INSTALMENT DUE. THE DECLARATION EXPLAINED. Attention is again drawn to the fact that every person' liable for the unemployment levy is required this month to make a declaration of income for the year ended ills?*. March, 1931, at the nearest Money Order Office. The declaration form (U. 13. 55) contains three clauses as follows: — (1) I declare that during the year ended 31st. March, 1931, I derived no income from any source other than salaries or wages(2) That I have furnished to the Commissioner of Taxes a declaration of the total income derived by me from all sources other than salary or .wages during the year ended 31st.‘ March, 1931. (3) That ths following is a true and complete statemnt of income derived by me from all sources other than salary or wages during the year ended 31st. March, 1931. Only one of these three clauses will apply in each case and the other two would be struck outt. Taxpayers not wishing to disclose their income at the Post Office are allowed the privilege of making the necessary declaration oft the coloured form U.B. (a) to the Commissioner of Taxes. It will greatly facilitate matters if this special declaration to the Commissioner of Taxes is not made except in casea where there is a real objection of disclosing particulars of income to the Postal Authorities. The great bulk of the people will, it is honed, follow the simpler course of declaring their income on the white Form U.B. 55 at the Post Office. It is important to emphasise that if the declaration of income is made and forwarded to the Commissioner of Taxes, the tax due must be remitted at the same time with the declaration. Demands for this tax are not issued; payment being made with the declaration. Further it is important to note that the fact of a person having already made an income tax return does not affect the liability to make a declaration of income now. Every one must declare now bis income on the White Form U.B. 55 or the coloured Form U.B. 55 (a). Every' person liable for the levy, whether in receipt of income other than salaries or wages or not, must make the declaration on Foim U.B. 55. This declaration is to be made and banded in at the nearest Post Office; it is not to be sent to the Secretary, Post and Telegraph Depart, ment, Wellington.