UNEMPLOYMENT TAX

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 76, 20 November 1931, Page 6

UNEMPLOYMENT TAX

FIRST INSTALMENT OF EMERGENCY CHARGE DUE completion of declaration Attention is again- drawn by the Unemployment Board to the fact that every person liable for the unemploymont levy is required this month to make a declaration of income for the year ended March 31, 1931, at the nearest Money Order Office. The declaration form '(U.B. 55) contains three clauses as follows: — ... (1)1 declare that during the year ended March 31, 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 March 31, 1931. (3) That the following is a trUe and complete statement of income derived by me from all sources other than salary or wages during the year ended March 31, 1931. Only one of these three clauses will apply in each case and the other .two should be struck out. Taxpayers not wishing to disclose their incomes at the Post Office are allowed the privilege of making the necessary declaration on the coloured form U.B. 55 (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 cases where there is a real objection to disclo'sing particulars of income to the postal authorities. The great bulk of the people will, it is hoped, follow the simpler course of declaring their income on the white Form UB 55 at the Post Office. It is important to emphasise that if the declaration of income is made ~nd forwarded to the Commissioner of Taxes, the tax due must be remitted at the same time with the declaraion. Demands for this tax are not issued; payment being made with the declaration. Further, it is important to note fchat 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 his 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 Form U.B. 55. This declaration is to be made and handed in at the nearest Post Office; it is not to be sent to the Secretary, Post and Telegraph Department, Wellington.