Taxation policy slated
PA Auckland The Naiional Party’s tax policy is designed to force (women out to work, according to the Labour member of; Parliament and former Minis-; iter, Mr R. O. Douglas. | He told Auckland Univers-; ity students that the family! I tax burden was now likely to] • increase $468 a year when the, ■youngest child turned five. ; , Families with the same in-1 ;come and the same number of; .children . could have differ-; ences in their annual tax pay-, • ment of $728 depending on; ; the ages of the children. Labour’s new tax policy; .would remove this unfairness. ] •It would give a family with; (one child a tax-free income of; $lOO a week, with two; children $lO5, and with three; (children $llO. The tax-free! income would be increased s2] a week for each further child. 1
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Press, 7 August 1978, Page 13
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