SHOPKEEPERS AS TAX COLLECTORS
“While no objection can be made to the initial Budget of the new Labour Government on accoi.nr or radical and revolutionary changes in the methods of raising revenue for the State to function, it is disappointing in so far as its tendency will be to increase instead of reduce the burden of indirect taxation, most of which is collected by our retailers from customers, and, in the final analysis, it is seen that our shopkeepers are the principal collectors of revenue from taxation,” says an editorial in the “New Zealand Draper.” “The new Budget makes New Zealand the most mighly-taxed people’in the British Empire, if not in the world, and while the Government insists on our shopkeepers collecting most of its indirect revenue from the goods the public consume, our retailers err—.’ on the unpalatable task of acting tax collectors, and the people must not complain if their money does not go so far as it might if different methods of revenue raising prevailed.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 237, 19 September 1936, Page 6
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168SHOPKEEPERS AS TAX COLLECTORS Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 237, 19 September 1936, Page 6
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