AN IMPORTANT CASE.
TESTING A LAND TAX ACT. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Melbourne, May 24. The case Osborne v. the Commonwealth is one of the most important cases, as affecting the powers of the Commonwealth Parliament, yet heard. The right of the Legislature to enact a land tax is challenged on two groundsfirst, a technical one relating to the discrepancy of dates regarding the passing of the land tax itself and the Land Tax Amendment Act. The main objection rests on a constitutional point. It is contended by the nominal plaintiff that the avowed legislative intention of the Land Act, namely, to burst up large estates, is an invasion of the powers specifically reserved to the States, the constitution merely empowering the Federal Government to pass tax measures for revenue-raising purposes.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 310, 25 May 1911, Page 5
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130AN IMPORTANT CASE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 310, 25 May 1911, Page 5
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