UNIFORM TAXATION
AUSTRALIAN STATES
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MELBOURNE, April 23
The. conference of State Premiers unanimously rejected the Commonwealth's uniform taxation scheme, which will now be submitted to the Federal Parliament. This means that if Parliament approves the scheme it will be introduced despite the objections of the States.
The Prime Minister, Mr. J. Curtin, told the conference that the Commonwealth Government regarded it as destructive to allow. one man in one part of Australia to have greater purchasing, power than another man on the . same income in ahother : part of the country.' . . '.'..'
The Federal Treasurer, , Mr. B. Chifley, "disclosed that the Commonwealth'would have a /deficit of about £70,000,000. this year. He said that, under the present .system,' the States' revenue/increased as . the Commonwealth's deficit increased.
The State, Premiers made .objection to the scheme on the 'ground that it would mean • a fundamental surrender of State sovereignty and that the Commonwealth had. not been, hampered in its war effort by lack of money.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 96, 24 April 1942, Page 6
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161UNIFORM TAXATION Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 96, 24 April 1942, Page 6
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