UNCOLLECTED INCOME TAX.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 9 April 1910, Page 5

UNCOLLECTED INCOME TAX.

LOSS OF £20,000,000.

LONDON, April 8.

In the House of Lords, Lord Avebury declared the action of the Government in not passing the resolution authorising the income tax had resulted in a loss of £20,000,000, whereon the interest was £800,000. An alarming fall in national securities was the consequence. Lord Crewe replied that the Government was responsible for the management of the taxpayers' money, and also guardians of the constitution.

"LANDLORDISM AND MONOPOLY THE REAL CAUSE OF UNEMPLOYMENT."

(Received April 9, 10.0 a.m.) LONDON, April 8. In a letter to (the newspapers, in reply to Mr Storey's speech in favor of fiscal reform, Mr Barnes, Labor M.P., asserts that tariff reform is a fraud and ■will intensify the industrial difficulties and enable monopolists to further exploit Labor and the consumers. He adds that the Labor party believe landlordism and monopoly are the real „ cause of want of employment*.