SOCIAL SECURITY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 45, 4 August 1939, Page 5

SOCIAL SECURITY

CONTRIBUTION NOW DUE In this issue appears an intimation from the Commissioner of Taxes thai an instalment of the Registration Fee became due on Ist August and that on the same date there also fell due the second instalment of the Social Security charge on income other than salary or wages derived during the year ended 31st March 1939. Payment may be tendered at any Moj»oy Order Office,The quarterly registration fee is payable by all male persons of 20 years of age or over. Failure to pav renders defaulters liable, on summary conviction to a fine of £5. In addition a penalty of sixpence per month automatically accrues if payment is not made within one month of the due date. Any employer who employs for more than seven days a person who is more than one month in, arrears with an instalment of the Registration .Fee, is liable on summary conviction to a fine of £20. Employers may deduct the amount of any overdue registration fees from the wages payable to employees. The Social Security charge on income other than salary or wages is payable at the rate of one in the pound f by all persons male and female, who have attained the age of sixteen years, other than those in receipt of a war ponton in respect of total disablement. A penalty of 10 per cent accnies o-> the amount of any instalment not nn'd within one month of tlio d"p date Further information may be obtained at any Monev O r do~ OfT'efrom the Commissioner of Taxc? Land and Income Tax Department. Wellington, C.3.