FEDERAL LAND TAX
WILL SQUATTERS STRIKE? (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn). SYDNEY, March 31. Speaking at a meeting of the New South Wales Taxpayers’ Association, protesting against the Federal Land Tax, and urging its abolition, Dr. Casey (Victorian accountant) declared that if the Government does not remove the unjust taxes, taxpayers should rise in a body and tell the Administration that they would not pay. He contended that a great deal of bluffing was practised, mentioning one case in which the Taxation Commissioner revoked an extra valuation of £20,000, as soon as the assessment was challenged. The taxation should be spread over a wider field, and everybody should pay something, either in money op labour. Mr A. S. Watts, of Sydney, sa'd the present tax had destroyed profitable sheep stations and created unprofitable wheat farms.
The meeting passed a resolution in favour of an immediate removal of the tax.
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Grey River Argus, 1 April 1932, Page 5
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