INCIDENCE OF TAXATION.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18015, 6 March 1924, Page 11

INCIDENCE OF TAXATION.

v REPL.ES TO r CRITI CISM ' __ . , 0 ' TSE TRESS- .1 , , c rurn to clli i. r •.. :•;! -I M- Ma.- - sfD," - a!U . .. „ •„ f'-' ..tfntion n- 13 ' ,CC " l^" irr wring sCver:U ° "j. j i«iv k'"- ! ■i' Burden &t 1 •' 1 ' "" U :,1 Spin,' .iH I .5 ".zr' ■ * ?" cM " - ter 'contains m->._ * : »« Itisf Tr'^ u 1 in cDtoui.''g" , n • £ h»'s b«» ? country by writ,.., c, ■ as 'Justice. tirtH'" r . sound print .|>.> 1 • lu» '{Stf take into » S> V - proportion or .a,-.. a gi '"'3 !J>fJ fol lo *' > j l '. ■ , j £ rL urce from whici, . ! -.mod.' This is 'pui" ,|l4 vf 6 r Jobn Stuart. Mill. * fiV Of the other gnat au * Lon political economy, l.ut until ~,w 'Justice' does not :utcnitu i'» vise ,1P 1 £»t aware of the burdens * ft the land tax upon count, y "'■L or he does not stop to tlm.,; '"Eland '« x is out ot "'! l ,ru i' or ' 1 "■.tie income tax. lor instance, '"'ft!exempt op to £3OO per an II4 K. there are many concession, '"Kit The sum of. l>or an"■halted at 0 per cent, gives u> ie grt ,iempt only up to >;.V)O. so °*»i.,irraPtion wrorlw out as .16000 i Wfore the operation ot' the iniSßUplies, and £SOO for the unraluc of land before the land "g-fe How is that for fair Over thirty years ago the '•jßLand Parliament decided that Jibing country lands should fßytax, hut should be exempt iH»(onie tai, and very little cxr», L.. t, Mn taken to that arrang.(Mlatil, aa a war tax, farmers wore fcßjMStOpay income tax as well But they were informjgKgetime that when the war eanic and matters settled down, dtKnali get back to land tax only, iXnttre before. • To retain the jjM,m Trould be grossly unfair as ,(■„| «rioin breach of fait.li, of a'Kn set of decent men would bo j'jJcHffl&y Sattler and illation. ofB';-jti«' icema to think that businJKtu pay heavily in land tax. odßjMgrtS' institutions, such as the branches in each centre of aiKjfjlatioii, do, or insurance comA ; teven stork and station ageii- /«■ (he ordinary business man raKtiiy little in the way of land fill would 'Justice' think if it n-Hgd fy be suggested in Parliament wKfetmiiiess man should pay taxain trade? But land °®jtitodt in trade of the country k #p,ii which his capital is investfttting it in another way, tho *flßUttiiil from which he makes :i b'whether he makes a procountry settler lias to Slßltfta.. During the slump years, flfctojtliuig that he produced fell least 50 per cent., he the land tax, though his la many cases very serious. Bpt precious little consideration of the turn of mind who writes about a subject M&ti bo evidently knows very tlie ia attempting intentionthe public. This is the * that we might expect from representative in Parlia■tui it is just the sort of thing Bwing from representatives of community will, in the ■Vsfota&t future, place a Socialison the Treasury A? ® e talks about leaseholders one of whom he says ~H|j»*!«lg9 had an income of ap£2o.ooo from his wool yw. He does not think it i»!J to inform those who read his the £20,000, even if any which I very much gross income of the Oat of that, if it was had to pay rental based of the property; ho had «penses of his farm whatever it happened to r^B ß ,f,!*J ,o,ir ) material for fencn* erest u pon his per cent., probably, to the flBSi ■* Me y with wh °ra he losses of stock; local , °° B ) and land tax on the the lease if it happens to an d the thousand which every settler *■*.*«? , Bnder atands, but to conveniently Side of the Picture. 4 ,' 518^® 6 ° CCar3 to me of .JHm ... SWtleman with whom I holding is 750 awes. It is fairly Kf h , 10 a fairly good position. (BUj t . Was P a 'd at the proper .J 18 *® Been the receipt for V over to the The local Kin, i Property referred to »«onW rtof . £1 acrei, v y one ins tance out of Zealand, and it is ■"Hit it. v enter prise of such j ®' an d others who ■«4 im T®" 6 Probably living I')!*'". I Should like °n a backblocks farm, and mortgage •B I ? Wwh. everything that mcludln g high ® endeavouring to SSrJ&» l^ectabl y- I have ® and I am sorry nt y of them found " as the Parmer. '^ e are one com ' iSmrf" our Work > our m **' nd our happiu Every just man P a >' ±or the T ? accordance with h t0 h3VC t0 ■C * latt«s o not appear Km v , Compare the ■S?®* fl»» y Justice' with bV +t n6 / f the last ■sr*heteh. -j ' 6 President '.R? tho nation *|!is. : ls£r '' "» 2<al»d s*®'Mj' , Joael»i. probably apSSii eCaUBe Practically /?Bu.i .W Hr this country agricultural and Would do 'Jusfarm to turn him "■IWr to I)!" elve months 5* if 1, ** toL ey mi g ht ;«^4W^ e * ee Buch as a short

period to a better way of thinking, as it has converted many others. people are of opinion that it is in the interests of the Dominion .hat the number of primary producers should be steadily increased, but if we are to be successful in this respect, we must give intending settlers to understand that they will be treated fairly and justlv, and that no unnecessary burdens will be placed on their shoulders. So far as the Government is concerned, we favour no one class, but we know perfectly well that if tht producers are prosperous, all the other classes of the share in their prosperity, and as Preaident Harclmg implied, if wo help the farmer, we assist every industrial and commercial activity in the Dominion.