UNEMPLOYMENT LEVY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 131, 26 January 1932, Page 6

UNEMPLOYMENT LEVY

PAYMENT OF THIRD INSTALMENT DUE INCOME CHARGE ALSO The. third instalment of the gen•ral unemployment levy will become lue on Monday, February 1, and nust be paid within one month from hat date. It. is necessary to point >ut that delay in payment may ad-,-erse-ly affect the amount of relief hat is available for the unemployed, ■esides involving the non-payer in he possibility of a prosecution. Magstrates all over the Dominion are alcing a very serious view of the tenlency to delay or evade payment, and he nenalties are being made consid-

erably heavier than was' previously he case. On the same date the second intalment of the emergency charge on wo-thirds of income for the year end■d March 31, 1931, falls due. -The: •>erson who declare-s his income to the lommissioner of Taxes must forward the appropriate amount of tax with lis dc-claration, and the person who leclares to the secretary of the- Post nd Telegraph Department must pay .he amount of tax due on presentaJon of his declaration at a mone-y-order office. Youths who attain the age of 20 years after November 1, 1931, and m or before February 1, 1932, are iable for the February instalment ~)f the charge on income. Default in payment of the charge :or more than a month after the due late lende-rs a person liable, on sumnary conviction, to a fine of £5, and Iso to a penalty, without eonvicion, of 10 per cent. of the amount )f the charge not paid.