THE LAND TAX.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 281, 4 October 1879, Page 3

THE LAND TAX.

6 — (To the Editor'of tk Wauaeata Daily. Whareama, Sept 30,1879. 'Sm,-By a notice in your paper I see the Post Office, Masterton, is appointed as the place wliere the land tax is to be paid in this County. Mr Deputy Commissioner does not study the convenience of the tax-payers when lie only appoints one jilacc for collection in a large area like the Hjairarapa East County; or perhaps it is Rmentable want of knowledge on his .rtFt of the geography of the Provincial iljprtfct of .Wellington, or a misconception ■of the state of the roads in the northern part of this comity. Tenui, in this immediate neighborhood, would have suited a larqe number of the taxpayers as a place of collection. Under the existing arrangements, many persons will have to travel long distances to pay this iniquitous class tax, made more burdensomo through official stupidity in not having appointed places of collection within reasonable distances of the taxed. Is it not a great injustice that a person living from fifty to sixty miles away and taxed to the amount of say £l, should have to travel such a distance, at an expense (counting loss of time and hotel charges) of £s—making the total amount the land tax costs him £6. In fact, he pays first and last all but as much as a person, for instance, living at Masterton near the Post Office and having property of a taxable value of £3,000. If taxes of this character are imposed it seems only right that collectors should lie appointed to go round and collect the amounts due, thus placing all the taxpayers on an equal footing, by none of them having to travel short or long distances.—l am, &C. t M.