CLAIM BY BREWERS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 6 July 1921, Page 4

CLAIM BY BREWERS

MONEY USED DEFENDING TRADE-

QUESTION OF TAXATION.-

.BY '«E_EaRAPH —VREBB ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON. July 5. Mr. McGregor, Solicitor-General, who>. 1 appeared for the , Commissioner of. Taxes, maintained that the expenditure?.I was not wholly incurred, in earning in— come for the year on which the assesß—j ment was based, and was thereforeliable to taxation. The expenditure,, he said, was purely, a capital one to■■■'■» obtain protection against a future "change in the law which would destroy* the company's business. The influenc ing of the electors was not part of the^ business of brewing or selling beer. After Mr : Blair had replied the;Court reserved its decision.