THIS YEAR'S TAXATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 95, 23 April 1931, Page 20

THIS YEAR'S TAXATION.

LEGISLATION DEFERRED.

A MEMBER NOT SATISFIED.

'•LET US KNOW THE WORST." (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Efforts are being made to complete the emergency legislation of Parliament within the week, and if the special committee considering the Hawke's Bay Earthquake Relief Bill could have reported to the House to-day there would have been a possibility of achieving that end, but the committee has had long deliberations and was not quite ready to report the amended measure. It is definitely known that the Government has decided not to introduce its taxation legislation until the June session, when the Minister of Finance will be in a better position to determine the Government's minimum requirements than at the present, when he has to depend on a long-range forecast. Mr. R. A. Wright (Reform, Wellington Suburbs), speaking to-night, advocated 'that Parliament should know the worst at once. The House was dealing with Finance Bill No. 2 Would there be a third or a fourth this session? The Prime Minister had been giving the country its medicine in homeopathic doses, but some people, himself included, would like to have it all at once and be told the worst. "Let us face up to it," Mr. Wright urged, "instead of getting a little now and a little later on. The Prime Minister hopes to balance his Budget. We hope so, too, but the savings will not amount to the total he estimates."