TAX SUGGESTED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 177, 29 July 1941, Page 5

TAX SUGGESTED

j| PATRIOTIC FUNDS __ > SCHEME MEETS OPPOSITION ■ The question whether the associaMtion was in favour of a tax for patrio--5 tic funds in place of the present ■ methods of collection was asked in a ■| letter from the Chamber of -Com_|merce received at a meeting of the r] Manufacturers' Association yesterliday afternoon. The letter suggested that the money be raised by a tax lof lid in the £ added to the social r security tax, or by some similar jway. and "that the money thus col- ',\ lected should not be expended by the t Government.

Stating that this was a very controversial subject, the president, Mr|W. J. Truscott, said the present methods were unsatisfactory in many ways. For instance, they were uneconomic in that there was a huge, ! indirect expenditure. On the other' J hand, the feelings of the people wore' against Government control in thiSpeaking of art unions and jsmiilar schemes for raisin? money' '■he said that while a person should )- not need the prospect of reward to t give to the cause, he considered tiie a ends justified the means. i . Otner members expressed the viewthat much harm would be done to e the war effort, and that the country •-could not afford to lose the patriotic j spirit engendered by the present x efforts. il After further discussion it was r decided to state that the association 1-was opposed to the scheme of laxae tion, and a motion to that effect wa< carried.