LAND TAX TEST CASE.
IMPORTANT CONSTITUTIONAL
QUESTION.
MELBOURNE, May 24. Tlie case Osborne versus the Commonwealth is one of the most important cases, as affecting the powers of the Commonwealth Parliament, that have yet been heard. The right of the Legislature to enact the land tax is challenged on two. grounds, viz., (1) a technical point relating to the discrepancy of thedates regarding the passing of the Land Tax Act itself, and the Land Tax Amendment Act; and (2) an objection which rests on a constitutional point contended by the nominal, plaintiff, it being avowed that the legislative intention of the Land Act, namely to burst up large estates, is an invasion of the powers specifically reserved to the States, the Constitution merely empowering the Federal Government t*» pass taxation measures for raising purposes. The latter objection is the main one.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14052, 25 May 1911, Page 9
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