Public servants support tax cut
Z Press Association)
WELLINGTON, May 16.
Public servants support the Federation of Labour's call for an adjustment in tax rates.
The chairman of the Combined State Service Organisations (Mr I. E. Reddish) said today that an independent survey showed that, in the last 10 years, for some taxpayers the percentage increase in tax paid had grown more than twice as fast as the percentage increase in salary.
A married man on the average wage was now paying 4 per cent more of his income in tax than he did in October, 1972, Mr Reddish said. The C.S.S.O. did not see tax concessions in any way as an alternative to compensating wage and salary earners for cost-of-living changes. Salary and wage earners were entitled to a full cost of living adjustment plus a tax charge to compensate for the greater proportion of tax now being taken from their incomes, said Mr Reddish.
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Press, Issue 33845, 17 May 1975, Page 3
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