SHOULD BE TAXED
HIGH-PAID OFFICERS
EXEMPTION IF OVERSEAS
(By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.)
WELLINGTON, this day.
Taxes should be paid by army officers on high salaries who were in New Zealand, and were never likely to go overseas, contended Mr. Wilkinson (Independent, Egmont) in his Budget speech in the House of Representatives last evening.
"A large numoer of servicemen are not now paying income tax on their soldiers' pay," said Mr. Wilkinson. "Many of the men in the army are drawing military pay greater than their income in civil life, and they escape income tax and social security and national security taxes. I am not asking that men who have gone overseas should pay, but that servicemen in New Zealand, who are drawing high pay and have never left, and will never leave the country, should be called on to pay just as are civilians. It seems wrong that when taxation is levied on the smallest wage-earner, and on boys and girls who reach 16, that military men on high salaries, who are doing their jobs at a desk or somewhere else in New Zealand, who are not on active service, should escape taxation."
Mr. Wilkinson urged that taxation on business firms should not be unduly high, but that they should be given a chance to accumulate some reserves. Apart from anything else a hard-up employer was not much good to any worker. The best man to work for was the man with good resources to pay good wages. He added that he disagreed with people who suggested that the whole cost of the war should be paid out of taxation, and supported the Government's policy of paying 50 per cent of the cost from taxation.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 143, 18 June 1943, Page 2
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