Students welcome Cabinet move
The Univeristy Students’j: Association has welcomed the announcement that the Cabinet has asked the Mims-. ter of Education (Mr Gan-, dar) to prepare a report, about the effect of new in-; come tax rates on tertian bursary-holders, to see it i something can be done t< . ease the impact on them. ; Miss Lisa Sacksen. presi dent of the association, whc I was in Christchurch sai that its represent! fives had. for the first time I been invited to meet th< ; Government Caucus Cor mittee on Education to dis cuss possible tax relief. The association had mad ■ strong representations to ti Government since the But get was announced, sa Miss Sacksen. Although was confident that an a’ nouncement of tax relief foil
[Students would be made; (soon, the association did not; know what form this would i take. I One possible way to give I tax relief would be to make I ill course-related expenses, j such as books, field trips, I tnd students’ association j ees, tax deductible, she I aid. If this were done, it I vould be enought to ensure! j tudents did not lose the ef- j I ect of the 82.50 a week bur-j ary inc r ease. which will be I ' atroduced next year. 1 Miss Sacksen was report [ I d as saying after the Bud-j ■ announcement on bu ; ! aries, that while on om I i and the Government gav< [ I a increase of $2.50 a week i in effect took this awa I I v changes in the rate of j x on student holida > . nployment, and the aboli- I ; ->n of the personal re i loate. i
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