TAX ON SPORTS BODIES

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 22, 26 July 1933, Page 4

TAX ON SPORTS BODIES

UNITED ACTION URGED

(By Telograph.) (Special to. the -'Evening Post.") DUNEDIN, This Day. • Combined action on the part 'of sporting bodies throughout tho Dominion against income taxation was urged' bydelegates at the annual meeting of the Dunedin Bowling Centre. The question was raised by a delegate who said, that aa secretary of a club he had received a circular from the Commisioner of Taxes stating that the club was liable fol' income taxation. Ho had later received a demand for income based on revenue received- from rent, and maintained, that such taxation opened up a very big question. -When Parliament passed the amended taxation Bill in 1925 it was not intended that sports bodies should be regarded as incorporated, bodies, Why should any sports body which had for its sole purpose the providing of facilities for its members to play a sports game be liable to income- tax? ". Another delegate said-he had interviewed an inspector of the Income Tax Department and had been ' informed that the new. form of taxation had-juf-t been discovered. It was * covered .',by law, but he did not think the tax should be retrospective. It was a big question, and should be taken up by. all sports bodies in New Zealand. It was no use acting individually. It was understood that the Department was going back only years'to collect the tax, though it could go back five years, and ho regarded this action as a probable compromise. Ho instanced the case of a ciub which had raised £500 three years ago and was now receiving an income tax demand. He dirlr not know-where the,monoy would come from to meet it. The matter was referred to-the executlvej with .jKnver to act, ;