INCOME TAX
TAX A TICK INCIDENCE
The principle of differentiating between married and unmarried persons in the imposition of income tax is making eonsn.lerab!'! h midway abroad .say the “Lyttelton Times.’
It is recognised in the United Kingdom and the United States, and now France lias fallen into line. Under recent legislation the income tax is increased by 25 per cent, m the case of unmarried persons of both sexes over the age of thirty, and the extra tax is also imposed on all marred persons who after two years of wedded life have no children, a measure obviously prompted by the extremely low birth-rate of lb" French na'ion. So far as New Zealand is concerned, what is needed is Ugi. lotion more on BvTish and American lines, adjusting existing taxation more equitably between married and unmarried, and between the large family ana the small.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 August 1920, Page 5
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