A LABOR BELIEF.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10739, 9 November 1928, Page 5

A LABOR BELIEF.

WEALTHY PEOPLE WHO DON’T "AST INCODIE TAXI

MR COMEDIAN’S ASSERTION

The incidence of taxation of the Dominion’ under Reform’. l3 administration was discussed by Mr D\ W Coleman,'- Labor candidate for the Gisborne seat,. .ai-Mangapapa last night. Mr .Coleman alleged that the Government • had made remissions m land tax, exceptions in income tax to wealthy landowners and. ai, the same time, had increased the Customs taxation, thus shifting the bur den from those able to bear it on to the shoulders of the working class and small farmers. The Government’s policy, he said, seemed t‘> follow on the lines of the Scripture “to him that hath shall be given, and to him that'hath not. shall la 5 taken away, even that which bseemeth to have.”

A correspondent signing himself “Truth” bad, said Mr Coleman asked for names of wealthv land owners whom he had claimed paid no income tax, but he pointed out. that he and the Party were not fighting persons, but the principles which allowed these people to be exempted from taxation. Therefore he did not see why he should bandy, the names of these people from the public platform. However, some of the people enjoying the privileges did nor. liv* 10 miles from Gisborne. He asserted also that four or five Reform members and two Ministers of the Cabinet, owning over 140,000 sheep, paid no income tax.