INCOME TAX PAYMENTS
OBLIGATIONS IGNORED
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Friday. For the current year, 35,000 default assessments had to be sent out by the Land and Income Tax Department to taxpayers who failed to furnish returns of income, according to Mr. W. R. Birks, in the Magistrate's Court, when he prosecuted a number of persons against whom informations had been laid by the Department.
Many taxpayers, Mr. Birks said, failed to make returns and waited for default assessments to be sent to them, -which they then corrected and returned. The Department had, therefore, made it a practice to prosecute taxpayers who failed to fulfil their obligations, and about 300 would be prosecuted this year, they being people who had consistently defaulted.
Six persons were fined by Mr. A. M. Goulding, S.M., the amounts ranging from £2 to £10 for each information for Jailure to furnish returns-, .
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 250, 21 October 1944, Page 6
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