Tax cut on benefit
PA Wellington All unemployment beneficiaries without dependent children will have to payi tax on their benefit from] October 1. The Director-General of; Social Welfare (Mr S. J. Callahan) said yesterday that; this was a result of the June; Budget. The first benefit' payment to be affected; would be on October 4. A married couple without) i dependent children will pay, 1 i $12.39 a week on their gross] benefit of $86.88: single ben-1 , eficiaries over 20 will payi '57.39 tax -on $52.13; those* 'under 20 Will pay $5.61 on 1 $39.66. ,
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Press, 29 September 1979, Page 6
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