'WAGE-EARNERS' INCOME TAX
(To the Editor.) Sir,—The Hon. Mark Fagan and Min-, isters would make it appear that the present Government has not made it any harder for the worker on the bread and butter wage. Is it not a fact that the worker has now to pay income tax when his wages reach £211 for the year? with no exemption for the tax pn his wages, whereas under the previous Government he was not liable until he had earned £251, and then he had exemption for the amount of wage tax? It is just this amount that makes all the difference to the 'working man. The position is, in myown case, and thousands of others, I shall now be liable for tax on £40 (after the usual exemptions are made) and had the other Government remained in power I would have still been exempt.—l am, etc., •" DISAPPOINTED WORKER.
[The position is not quite as the correspondent states. The general exemption of £210 is the same as formerly, but the amount deducted from wages for the unemployment charge is now subject to taxation if it brings the income above the exemption mark.—Ed.]
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 89, 12 October 1937, Page 8
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