RAISING REVENUE

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2496, 8 March 1930, Page 5

RAISING REVENUE

FOR THE UNEMPLOYED LABOURISM IN VICTORIA TAX ON SINGLE MEN By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received 9.45 a.m.) Melbourne, March 8. Tlie State Parliamentary Labour Party has improved; itlio. Labour Cabinet’s proposals for unemployment insurance. If is now proposed that pending t!,p operation of tjpeh legislation, to raise £350,000 hv a special income and property tax from tlie relief of unemployed, at the, .rate of one halfpenny in tlie pound on incomes derived from personal exertion and * penny in file pound from property. Income tax will be levied on all singlo men earning £2OO per 'car or over and on married men of -£3OO or over.