ASSESSING TIPS.
British Authorities' Search for Tax Revenue. FORTUNES FROM GRATUITIES. LONDON", March 20. The Government is seeking a new source of income tax revenue, and has ordered tax collectors to do their utmost to secure assessment against all persons whose ordinary income is habitually augmented by tips above the taxation limit, including pursers, stewards, page boys, waiters, hall porters and commissionaires. It is recalled that the late Nicholas Mackett, head porter at the Savoy Hotel for many years, left a fortune of | £20,000.
Some page boys in West End hotels, says the "Daily Mail," are known to make £7 a week in tips, and waiters up to £10. One commissionaire's tips exceed £2000 a year. Others listed for interrogation are golf caddies, gamekeepers, taxi-drivers and railway porters.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 68, 21 March 1934, Page 7
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