THE WAR TAX.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 61, 12 March 1915, Page 5

THE WAR TAX.

TWO'MEMBERS ■~W4KT: SCQCaESIIoiSS- . <Py. Telegnipii.-iSpeciaL te^'lJter.'J >= WELLDfGTQJ^eriBiaiT. The war tax is exercising tbeminde of many newspaper- correspondents./ lire, and the: viewe of two local member* of ■: - Pufliament'?haye':>aJsb'.got~into:::-print. . Both are against increasing tile-Customs ; tariff, to raise tire additional revenue. I They admit it has to bo obtained somewhere. "I cannot agree with, any Bug-. gested lax on imports, which will bit thousands who are unable to pay," J states; Mr. : T: M. WUford. ; need be imposed to make the lot*>F the small , wage-earner harder r -for, while be jis -being .'hit to the the. . ! price of . foodstuffs men.: : who are making ' huge pfofijp out of the war should be looked up at oa«e by the taxing departments of the Sfciiepwliile the large lando-wnera.-who -ha»e profited: by the war. should be made #»: : disgorge part of their profits: Still,^ttee:Jandownere- who.have 'given libefflly without I taxation ehould, be credited", witt the I giving. - iteTprreeV'oJE-iatouxJtda nearly all claseea 'fixed by award or •baeificatkin, I while the price of -jumps np ', and up at^he ; ipee dixit pf.4lie;Tendorai" His is plainly unjuet. liwr-pnschaeiiig ' ' ' power of- a pannd rote-1.. - -.. iehould eay—hae depreciated dtnee the 4th iof August last! : Beyond tW'eoggeeted increase the totalisator t«x could well j'etand.'anVincwaee'af'J^p^r^^rti^vCi : ' I The J meniber° for Hutt'afco'-enggwts doubling the etamp duty oncheqtiee, and r'reverting-tb Hie \ r and income taxes should be made to hear lithe "chief burden. He cays:,"Let Tβ re- ' member that the capital yalne of land . !in New Zealand in 1913 xias, no leae than . • I an. increaee eiace/l*o2 in value of ■ Aα invectigation into.., the profits raade by produceßß "and; dealers einee 4th August.last year.wonld enable us to estimate tion could •i^.Vf.'.LABOtIR MEMBER AND IHEJCiND..

"I would put a tax on the unimproved value of land" β^d"Mr.-A^;HL~-Hind-marsh, Labour -50 , .,' when , approached on the eobjeet "of tax, ; "particularly," :ie added, -."on rural landed which are large-estates.' It eeeine to nreiaat the people ; 'whb"'--profit'by tfie'_'warj.are the sheep farmers,, who *re reapiSg iiigh. prices".for^meat and wool. Wagee have not increased, and- the cost of lrr'ng -has. It would be most unfair to-inake-'-the ordinary citizieri' pay .through" duty on'.Cuetoipe, ae..epggested-Aby ,Mr. Beanchamp,. becacee to "tax would fall upon the consumer, and surt4y we-don't want'to' increase tie -cost of tiring to the ordinary consumerr , '** 4