The Property Tax.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3589, 28 June 1880, Page 2

The Property Tax.

The Inangahua Herald says:—AH the world is agog just now in reference to the filling up of the Property Tax forms required by the Property Assessment Act. These forms, as we remarked in a previous issue, are things wonderously and fearfully made. Who can possibly decipher them P And yet anyone blundering over the filling up of their mulfi* farious columns readers himself liable (o enormous penalties for so doing. Here comes a point which puzzles many. ■ Tlie Act says that the forms must be filled up and sent in to the Tax Commissione "by tne end of June." It further provides that it is incumbent upon citizens to go themselves to the Commissioner's office and ask for the forms. Now, we. would like to ask that gentleman and his deputies how it came to pass that a portion of the community received post-free, the said forms, while other people did not receive them? Does this mean favouritism? or what does it mean, or is to imply P what is sauce for the goose, in these Liberal, days of ours, is sauce for the gander. Why should Snookyns de Yere receive a franked letter containing a blank Property Tax form, while poor Jemima Tomkins, the servant girl receives none. And yet, considering the intricate delicacies—or indelicacies—of the Tax, one would conclude that in selecting to whom the forms and schedules should be posted^ the most ignorant class of the publiV should be thought of. Why it will tajfe. the concentrated wisdom of the LawSocieties of the colony to dictate how these Property Tax forms should be filled up so as to prevent the gaols from being overflowed by well meaning taxus who, v for their every very life, cannot muster sufficient knowledge or ability to fill them up iv a proper way.