THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO With which is incorporated "The Kaipara Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle." Helensville, Thursday, April 8, 1915. THE WAR TAX.

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THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO With which is incorporated "The Kaipara Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle." Helensville, Thursday, April 8, 1915. THE WAR TAX.

THE question of the coming war tax, for come it must, is creating great controversy in various quarters, as to its form and method, so as to affect 'everyone,' and not the worker and farmer against the fat man. Discussing the form which a war tax should take, the ' Farmers' Union Advocate '. says: " The farmer recognises that if a tax is necessary, he must pay his quota, and he will do so willingly, provided that it is not a class tax; but that all classes contribute their share in proportion to the benefits received. We also recognise that it is next to impossible to impose a tax that can be perfectly just to everyone, but speaking nomina]ly, and with reservation, we believe that the taxation for general purposes i^ fairly equitably imposed, and that a small percentage on existing taxation would meet the needs of the case. It may be true that certain sections |of the people have suffered more than others through the war, and therefore there is all the more need to see that the tax is levied in such a way that such people will benefit by almost complete exemption."