TAXATION PENALTIES

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21580, 17 September 1935, Page 9

TAXATION PENALTIES

TO THE EDITO* Off THE PRBSS. Sir, —The thanks of your correspondents should be yours for the trouble you take in making enquiry and "foot-noting" replies to their grievances. Why is it though that postal officials seem to scent a departmental slur when one criticises any

governmental matter with which they are connected? What on earth has it to do with the local assistant postmaster that I complain of a tax penalty imposed by the Government? It is no reflection upon his management. The fact remains that he did not see there was a queue when I paid my tax, several members of which complained of the imposition of a penalty because the first of the month had fallen on a Sunday (the previous day). Will you please say whether you think this emergency tax is not sufficient without a 10 per cent, penalty being imposed because the post office is not open to receive the tax on Sunday, the first of the month. If this is the law, the sooner members leave Bellamys and prevent such unjust and iniquitous clauses being inserted in a bill by civil service lawmakers, the better.—Yours, etc, NO LUXURIES THIS MONTH. September 16, 1935.