TAXES TOO HEAVY
Country Home Closes OWNER’S BITTER COMMENT London, November 23. Sir Archibald Weigall announces that the burden of the income-tax and supertax compels him to close his country residence at Petwood, thereby depriving the local authority of rates and taxes. He adds: “It is vindictive confiscation absorbing three-fifths of my income. The Government, as a means of bribing the electorate, is fallaciously trying to enrich the poor by impoverishing the rich.” Sir Archibald Weigall, a former Unionist member of Parliament, was Governor of South Australia eight years ago. He held important posts in the Coalition Government during the wnr.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 52, 25 November 1930, Page 9
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101TAXES TOO HEAVY Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 52, 25 November 1930, Page 9
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