NEW ZEALAND APPEAL.
UPHELD BY PRIVY COUNCIL.
CLAIM FOR DEATH DUTIES
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The Judicial Committee of the Privy; Council allowed with costs the appeal by Mrs. Olive Finch, of Wellington, asexecutrix of the will of her husband, ChaTles Edmund Finch. The respondent was tho Commissioner of Stamp Duties, The case concerned the commissioner's claim on a sum of £1982 for death duties.
The committee upheld the original judgment of the Chief Justice of New Zealand. that the £1982 paid for alterations to Sir. Finch's house was not a gift to his wife, but was expended to improve th® home, without the intention of evading death duties.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20162, 24 January 1929, Page 11
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