Child care fees taxation
Sir,—The Christchurch District Commissioner of Inland Revenue has completely missed the point in his reply to Doris Church's letter of November 11. I think Ms Church was asking when his department would recognise that child-care fees should be classed as tax-deductible expenses for self-employed people under SlO4 or as em-ployment-related expenses tor employees under SlO5. Government policy does not allow equal opportunity in the work force when women cannot claim these expenses as a deduction from their assessable income- and not merely as a very limited rebate deducted
from the actual tax assessed. The housekeeping rebate is totally inadequate in cases where children are cared for in the working parents’ home as the donation reb'ate SS6A does not apply. Both rebates have not been altered since 1977 and should be at least indexed to inflation but I would support Ms Church’s suggestion that these expenses should be deductible from income. — Yours, etc., MAXINE WAIN. November 13. 1981.
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