TIPS TO BE TAXED
British Government Seeks More Revenue UNTAPPED INCOMES Uy Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. (Received March 20, 11.15 p.m.), London, March 20. The Government, seeking a new source of income tax revenue. lias ordered tax collectors to do their utmost to secure an assessment from all persons whose ordinary income is habitually augmented by tips above the taxation limit, including pursers, stewards, page boys, waiters, hall porters, and commissionaires.
It. is recalled that Nicholas Maekett. bead porter at the Savoy Hotel for many years, left £20.000. Some pageboys in West End hotels, says the “Daily Mail.” are known to make £7 a week in tips and waiters up to £lO. One commissionaire’s tips exceed £2OOO yea rly. Others listed for interrogation are golf caddies, gamekeepers, taxi-driv-ers. and railway porters.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 149, 21 March 1934, Page 9
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130TIPS TO BE TAXED Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 149, 21 March 1934, Page 9
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