ALLEGED TAX EVASION
MAORI FARMING OPERATIONS COMMISSION APPOINTED BY GOVERNMENT (From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON. January 18. ' The members of the special c mmission of inquiry into alleged e.asions of taxation by Maori farming concerns were announced to-night by the Acting-Prime Minister (Mr K. J. Holyoake) as follows: Messrs J. H. Luxford, a former Stipendiary Magistrate. as chairman, T. N. Gibbs, recently chairman of the special committee set up by the Government to investigate the whole taxation system, and P. L. Porter, formerly general manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Wellington. Mr Holyoake said that no order of reference had yet been fixed for the commission, but he expected that it would be arranged along the lines of the statement made in the House of Representatives last session by the Prime Minister (Mr Holland). Announcing the Government’s intention to set up a commission, Mr Holland said it was clear that evasions of income tax and social security tax by large Maori farming concerns involved hundreds of thousands of pounds which had not been taxed at all. The default in ths payment of lawful taxes, had run on for the last 10 or 11 yeers, he said.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26633, 19 January 1952, Page 6
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