RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYED
LATEST AUSTRALIAN MEASURES Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, August 24. In the Legislative Assembly the Treasurer, Mr A. Richardson, introduced a Bill to-day_ to increase the wages tax and establish a special fund for unemployment relief. Mr Richardson explained that the Government was compelled to obtain additional revenue owing to an adverse season, with low prices for primary products. The wages tax increase will become operative on September 1. TWO TAXES TO BE COLLECTED AS ONE BILL HELD OVER. SYDNEY, August 24. (Received August 25, at 8 a.m.) The extent to which the wages tax is being increased is not disclosed in Mr Richardson’s Bill.- Ho stated that the Commissioner of Taxation would collect the two taxes as one tax from wages and determine the percentages to be apportioned to unemployment relief and social services respectively. The Bill has been held over.
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Evening Star, Issue 23354, 25 August 1939, Page 8
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144RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYED Evening Star, Issue 23354, 25 August 1939, Page 8
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