COUNTRY STOREKEEPERS' DIFFICULTIES
TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir—Through the columns of your paper I read of a lot of talk which, at the present time, owing to the drought, has my sympathy. But we never see in print anything about the poor country storekeeper, who keeps the farmers supplied with necessaries during the year, and then finds that some firms have taken all, leaving nothing for the storekeeper. The ■worst imposition saddled upon us is the sales tax, 5 per cent., also the 5 per cent, unemployment fund tax. I pat a question to a member for Parliament asking him what income meant. He promptly replied, "Money you receive." Then I said, "Suppose you don't receive any?" "Well," he said, "you could hardly call that income." Yet we have to pay tax on goods sold for which the money is not received, also Is in the pound unemployment tax—and this on paper profit. The next hard part is that the wholesale supplier of goods takes 5 per cent, tax, and pays nothing himself, as he gets it back frffm the client with 5 per cent, for collection. —Yours, etc., FULL UP. February 15, 1935.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21400, 16 February 1935, Page 9
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