UNEMPLOYMENT TAX ON STATE PENSIONS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20342, 15 September 1931, Page 11

UNEMPLOYMENT TAX ON STATE PENSIONS.

11l 'I HE KU'.'l or. OK TUB I'KESS i»r t —ilav I crave space to give pubjJjj 10 the extraordinary ruling of Uoeuipioynient. Board in respect to servants, who receive penjplt through tiie Superannuation IPkjjss has constantly to the curse of govilation, and I now give i of this to my mind .kut&s. The Act leaves to provide regulations nent of the tax, and iinui. Under Schedule pread very widely, ao ay apparently escape. 10 draw annuities, penn private firms, couibrouglit in under the ges," and rightly so; recognised principle or rce, ail employers or net the tax before payis quite correct, as. it when we come to the who receive pensions animation, differentia's. Tliey are placed in is not made incumbent plover to deduct the e pension at time of avoured class is to pay ome tax; or, they may 0 make a. declaration nt? Xoxv it is a fact of August no deducfrora. pensions (under tion Funds), and we ts position, that t&xae has not been carried age-earners, company, ents of pensions, have the tax taken off, the uperannuitants have If we are going to ; be Applicable in prinall alike. I am iniuent will be made py tes through their inimber; but why should sdit until that dater ut the hundreds or lo not make return of tre are too many holes 1 venture to say that is rotten in principle xpediency. Instead of Jd in the pound when tayable, imagine the md . xpense in tracing srwards. . W. Beanland. chairCouncil's Works Comlis'statement: Ap-' ivernment pimplv dm jne.v to make larger bought it by no means e unemployment tax wed shortly ' Government is snort owe of that shortage d by taxing all penthe source. , ept in mind that only hove incomes pf lied upon to make recome. Therefore, wha under this Bum? i the hone that tne be'amended before the er so that all are d that the only sound at the source may be the Unemployment vice official to whom j ■fcrrcl said that while | st public servants rehv wny of superannuin Schedule B, it is I those with incomes of ire able to escape the unemployment Amenciare no exemptions in ie except for women, required to make a. ion of his income, iwiunt. A woman reless is not asked to la ration.]