Call for tax on all benefits
PA Wellington The family benefit and all other welfare benefits should be taxed, says the president of the Chambers of Commerce (Mr J. Greenfield).
In a statement applauding the Budget decision to tax unemployment benefits received by single, childless people, he asked: “Why stop there?”
“Logic would suggest that the family benefit also might be taxable,” he said. “After all, why should wealthy parents already in receipt of two incomes, be paid in addition tax-free family benefits to be contributed in part by tax taken from the reduced benefits to be paid to the elderly?” In general, the principle should be that people with the same incomes, wherever the money came from, should pay the same in tax, Mr Greenfield said.
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