N.Z. DEATH DUTIES.
Privy Council Allows
Appeal. QUESTION OF GIFT TO A WIFE. (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 22. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council allowed, with costs, the appeal by 'Mrs. Olive Finch, of Wellington, as executrix of her late husband, Charles Edmund Finch, v. the Commissioner of Stamp Duties, respecting the commissioner's claim on £1982.
The Death Duties Committee upheld the original judgment of the Chief Justice of the New Zealand Supreme Court that £1982, paid for alterations to Mr. Finch's house, was not a gift to the wife but was expended to improve the home without the intention of evading death duties.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 19, 23 January 1929, Page 7
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