THE LAND TAX.

Kumara Times, Issue 841, 11 June 1879, Page 2

THE LAND TAX.

[to the editor.] Sir—ln the Gazette of June sth, received here to-day, appears an “ Order in Council,” extending the time for making objections to the valuation under the Land Tax Act, from the 15th of March to the 18th June. The Act provides that the Valuation Lists shall be deposited in some public place in the Borough or County to which they shall respectively, relate, and be kept there for 14 days; and that public notice of such deposit shall be given, so that every person interested mav inspect and copy the same. Section 25 of 'the Act, moreover, provides that notice of any valuation, shall be given to every person whose name appears oh the list. I have carefully paper, as being the only journal- published and circulating in this Borough, and therefore the only proper paper in which public notices referring to the Borough should appear, but have failed to find the notice required by the Act; neither can I find that any person in the Borough has received the separate notice required by section 25 of the Act. As the first Valuation List made under the Act in question will in all probability he looked upon hereafter in the same light in which Dooms-day Book” is regarded in the Horae country, it is most important that every care should be taken- to make it strictly correct; and therefor I think it right to call attention to what appears to be neglect or oversight on the pint of the authorities. . _ Some persons may think the matter of little consequence, because it is probable that none of the properties in the Borough are of sufficient value to bring them within the rating pbwers of the Act. But the owners may feel assured that the valuation will - be used for other and more extended purposes. The question of an Income and Property Tax is already being freely discussed in influential quarters.—l am, «fec., James Wylde. Kumara, June 11, 1879. [The attention of the Deputy Land Commissioner has already been drawn to the omission referred ftp by our correspondent, eliciting the fact that pecuniary considerations deter the Government from complying with the Act in its entirety, thereby inflicting an injustice on the residents of the Borough.— Ed. K. T.]