UNEMPLOYMENT TAX. INCREASE to 1/-IN £.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1932, Page 6

UNEMPLOYMENT TAX. INCREASE to 1/-IN £.

Then,” continues' the statement, 1 “we are faced with the need of tabling over from hospital boards the j responsibility of providing for able bodied unemployed. We must move men from the cities where little work is offering, to tire country districts where they will he more usefully employed. and where they will be giving some definite return, but the initial cost will be- higher than it is now, apart from any other increase. A considerable proportion of men who have been, employed on public works, and paid out of capital funds, must come ton to the unemployment fund. It j must- be clear to all that the con-iso-lkllabed fund will not be ah ltd to j contribute anything in the ensuing year by way of subsidy to the uncm- | ploynieiit fund, nor is it anticipated j that: the amount: payable this year, Ijv way of levy, and special tax on j wages anil income, will equal what J was received during the present financial year from the same income avenues. The special tax or unemployment stands outside of ordinary taxation, and outside of State revenue, ft i* jn Urn nature of insurance, or in pool, as amongst wage and salary : (tamers who are in employment, and , those who are unemployed from this | viewpoint, and so long as the availj iiblc fund* are economically -administered, 1 am ..sure that those who lure in employment and in receipt of I income, even a falling one, will not I grudge tin* increase shown to lie } necessary. The tax will now he ex- | |ended to include women with indiv- ; idual incomes below C2->0 a year, from ! sources other tJiau salary or wages. At present they are exempt. While women with the same, or smaller incomes from wages and salary. arc , - subject to the tax,- this anomaly will i I!m removed. Tt m necessary to ask j Parliament to increase the wages unemployment tax to i.s in the £l.”