GOLFER'S WINNINGS
NO LIABILITY TO TAX
LONDON, March 18. The well-known professional golfer Archie Compston figured iv a case in the law courts when .a Judge decided that he was not liable to pay income tax on winnings from golfing bets. Counsel for the Revenue Department admitted that an ordinary person's winnings could not be taxed, but argued that Compston's were made in the course of his vocation. The Judge said that Compslon must instruct if people asked him. but betting was entirely a matter of his own volition. j
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 67, 20 March 1937, Page 8
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90GOLFER'S WINNINGS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 67, 20 March 1937, Page 8
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