AUSTRALIAN TAXATION FIGHT
(Rec. 2 p.m.) CANBERRA, June 10. The Commonwealth Government will fight the State's opposition to uniform taxation in the High Court, stated Mr. J. Curtin after he had received official advice that Victoria, Queensland, and South Australia are to contest the validity of the Commonwealth Uniform Taxation Acts. Mr. Curtin said: "The Commonwealth will defend its own laws. What we have done has been dictated by an imperative sense of national responsibility towards the war. "I cannot for the life of me perceive any unfairness or departure from stern logic in a situation in which a nation puts so large a number of its population into uniform, and then levies a uniform tax in order to maintain the men in uniform. That is not a play on words—it is straight thinking." _________
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 135, 10 June 1942, Page 7
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