Tax returns top 80,000
The Inland Revenue Department is now about four weeks behind in processing returns from salary and wage earners. Of the 96,000 returns expected more than 80,000 have reached the department’s Christchurch office. The District Commissioner of Taxes (Mr C. K. Jones) said yesterday that refunds on returns sent in during the last fortnight would take at least a month to reach the payees. During the last few days the rate at which the returns were coming in had slowed down, giving staff the opportunity to clear the backlog of unchecked returns. Mr Jones said refunds on 50,000 returns had been handled, leaving 30,000 which would be cleared at the.rate of 7500 a week.
The rate of returns received from taxpayers this year had been faster than in previous years. Compared with this time last year there were 16,000 more returns in hand.
The great influx of returns would require the retention of staff on clearing them until the end of July.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32640, 23 June 1971, Page 1
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