YOUNG BRITONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 156, 3 July 1940, Page 9

YOUNG BRITONS.

INCOME TAX ALLOWABLE.

LEGISLATION TO BE TABLED.

(By Reporter.)

WELLINGTON, this day. On behalf of the member for Napier Mr. Barnard, in the House of Representatives last night, Mr. Lee (Democrat Labour, Grey Lynn) asked whether persons who were willing to receive and care for British children under the Government scheme, and who were liaale for income tax, would be allowed the usual deduction of £50 for each child taken care of, and whether the Government was prepared in cases where British children were taken into homes of workers or other persons of modest means to recognise such children as additional to the home for the purpose of the family allowance benefits.

Mr. Lee pointed out that it was suggested that putting into effect these simple proposals would enable a large number of charitable and patriotic people in Hfew Zealand to offer hospitality to children evacuated from the Old Country.

The Prime Minister. Mr. Fraser, said that legislation providing that NewZealand residents who cared for and supported British children brought to New Zealand under the Government scheme should receive for income tax purposes the same special exemptions as would be allowable if the British children so supported were the children of the taxpayer had already been drafted for inclusion in the Land and Income Tax Amendment Bill, which would be introduced at an early date.

In answer to the second part of the question, the Prime Minister said that in sub-section 3 of section 28 of the Social Security Act provision was made enabling the Social Security Commission to regard as a member of the family of an applicant for family benefit any child who, though not a member of the applicant's family, was maintained as a member of that family. In accoidance with this provision "the Commission would give favourable consideration to the inclusion in the family for family benefit purposes of British evacuated children who were actually being maintained by the applicant.