INCOME TAXATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 304, 23 December 1940, Page 6

INCOME TAXATION.

(To the Editor.)

I am a pensioner and for health reasons came to this country two yeari ago. My social security yearly jiaymeat approximates £12 per annum and so far I hare not been able to claim a. pill free of charge. So much for the medics] benefit. My pension debars me from receiving the- age benefit and as far u the superannuation j* concerned Fa afraid that 1 will be with my i<iefathtM long ere-that day arrive-. * Of couiee, medical benefit* may yet be gnin'ed.bnt in the meantime I pay. The iM-heme a» « good one, no doubt, .is many who hare been up against advereity through bo fault of their own will lx-jiefit aD j rightly so. But I think I am correct in saying that if I purchased pn<«is and the shopkeeper delivered part only, the liw would help me to recover. X<-\v we har« the national security tax, and Jet jne say that I welcome thiu opjKirtunity to contribute to the war effort, being well over military age. But I do object to the manner in which it is Wing In respect of the year ending March 31 1040. I am called upon to pay o\er £S and there in m> question bill that I wj]] lx« called njKin In pay for Ihe f«|| j^riod of the y<-:ir ending March 31, 1941 £je or more in my <-ar-e. Therefore, I wjjj have paid in re-pert of national smirk? over £21 to that date. .Vow here's He rni>—Wore I a wage earner instead of a pensioner I would pay about £8 5/ to the end of March, I'M], and mark von this new award ai 5 j.er oent wj a 3<3 meet that claim. So it would appeal that for the privilege of being a p eß . sioncr instead of a wage carm-r 1 wil] be over £21 down in my net income at the end of March, 13-il. DCM SPino, SPERO.