FILLING IN FORMS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21582, 8 December 1944, Page 8

FILLING IN FORMS

SIMPLICITY URGED THE AMERICAN PATTERN (P.r.) WELLINGTON. Dec. 8. "One of the most distasteful occupations in life .for a citizen is filling in iunns,” declared Mr. W. .1. Broadfoot (Opp.. Wnitomo) in the House oi Representatives yesterday afternoon, "and the most distasteful task of ail is. lilling in an income tax form." Mr. Broadfoot was discussing the apien'dmcnt of the Land and Income Tax Act, and suggested to the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, that simplification of forms would be welcomed by everyone. A large numocr o.i people derived their income solely irom wages or salary, and ;»<. .-tut Ateci that the tax in this rateUirv should be deducted at its source, dui’s saving work on an enormous number ot torn::-, where income was supplemented t<» a moderate extent .vom sources other than wages. far. Broadfoot considered that tilt form could be quite simple and that a could be accompanied by a table snowing the taxation payable on , arums amounts. •"We will be told that it cannot m done.” he concluded, but he wished the Minister would look into the system in operation in the United States, where, according to recent reports ~0,090,000 taxpayers would be exempted from the necessity ot filling ai income returns and another 10,UU0,eiiU would have a simpler form tc ~: apple with. Even the higher-up inAmu groups were getting a form which was easier to complete. If the ...blister examined the American sysem and found it practicable in New Demand a long-suffering tax-paying .(immunity would be delighted.