UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF
HIGHER WAGES TAX
NEW SOUTH WALES BILL
(Received August 25, 10.40 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day.
In the Legislative Assembly, th» Treasurer, Mr, A. Richardson, introduced a Bill yesterday to increasa the wages tax and also to establish a special fund for unemployment relief. Mr. Richardson explained that the Government was compelled to obtain additional revenue owing to the adverse season and the low pricec for primary products. The wages tax increase becomes operative on. September 1.
The extent to which the wages tax is to be increased is not disclosed in Mr. Richardson's Bill. The Treasurer stated that the'Commissipner of Taxation would collect two taxes as one tax from wages and would determine the percentages to be apportioned to unemployment relief and . social services respectively. . The Bill has been held over until Tuesday.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 48, 25 August 1939, Page 10
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