TAX ON WAGES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 188, 1 April 1932, Page 5

TAX ON WAGES

("Post" 'Special Commissioner.)

pqss1ble redugtion collectipn qf tenpence may proye sufficient for ngeds STATEMENT BY MINISTER V

MELLINGTON, Thursday. The possibility of a reductjqn pf the shilling in the pound unempjoyr nient relief wage tax by twppenee wpS mentioned by the Minister in charge of Unemployment, the fet.-- Hon.' J, C. Coates, to-day, but in order to bd oq the safe side in providing spfficiefit funds to mahitahi fhe unempioymeht relief scheme during the com'ing winter, Mr." Coates inten.ds to insist oh Parliament giving authority for the full shillin'g pfovided for in the-Biil;, "The first consideration;"* Mr-. Coates said, "must be th.e feeding of the people." He refused to sce ahy^one starve and he would insist on getting authority for. the shilling tax.* "I am hopeful, however," he continued, "that we may be able to get througli with a tax of te-npence, and if we find that this is practicable, -it can be reduced by Order-in-Council as provided for in the Bill now before Parliament." Mr. Coates said that the snceess of the scheme depende-d on the yiqld from the new taxation and he wqs not prepare.d to take the risk of anyqite being left without food tHrough in^ sufficient funds being avajlable. ** Apparently the Government is ex* periencing great difficulty in assessing the. estimated yield of the tax.