TAX APPEAL

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 238, 8 October 1942, Page 6

TAX APPEAL

DKC'ISIOX HKKKKVKit Legal argument, in the appeal of Alfred W'hitmore Babbage. farmer. Kawhia iMr. Sexton', against his assessment by the Commissioner of Taxes for payment of social and national security for the year ended March '51. 1940. was continued before Mr Justice Fair to-day. Mr. V. R. Meredith and Mr. Chalmer representi nf.r t lie ('ommissioner. In the eotirse of Mr Meredith's submissions, his I lonor asked a quesI ion about the largi' discrepancy between Mr Sexton's estimate that tilt' system objected to would increase the taxation revenue by .12 000.000 and the Commissioner's estimate of uo.ooo If Mr. Sexton was right it seemed like an extraordinary windfall the Commis-sioner-might not have exported. Mr. Meredith said that lie had im i.umi nation on the point, but lie I<-It that the Conmiis-ionor's estimate. >i: .1 f• on actual u.ssos-iiii'.'nts available, would almost cortainlx be nearer the mark than Mr. Sexton's rough calculation on the basis ol sheep and cattle In the country. So far as the appellant was ronccrned the increase in taxation was t'Tu Ule || mini II . el \ eil di el -nil.