SALES TAX NOT PAID
DUNEDIN TAILORS' STAND TEST ACTION PENDING [by TELEGRAPH —OWN' correspondent] DUNEDIN. Friday A writ has been issued on behalf of the Customs Department and served on T. Jenkins, as secretary of the Dunedin Master Tailors' Association, claiming payment of the sales tax. This confirms the information received some weeks ago that the department intended to bring a test case for the non-payment of the tax by Dunedin tailors.
a recent interview Mr. Jenkins set out the ground upon which the tailors in Dunedin were not paying the tax. He said it involved the principle that the taxation was not legal as it was outside the provisions of the Act as laid down by Parliament.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22166, 20 July 1935, Page 12
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