UNEMPLOYMENT LEVY

Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1932, Page 6

UNEMPLOYMENT LEVY

DUE OX Ist UEB'iIUAKV. ALSO CHARGE OX IXCOMK. The third instalment of the General Unemployment Levy "'ill become due on Monday, Ist kebruary, and must he paid within one month iron! that date, jt is necessary to point out that delay in payment may adversely alteet the amount ol relic! that is available tor the unemployed, besides involving tin l noil-paver in the possibility ol a plosiviition. Magistrates all over the Dominion are taking a very serious view of the tendency to delay or- evade payment, and the penalties arc being made considerably heavier than wa s previously the ease. Oil tin* some date the second instalment of the emergency charge on two-thirds of income for the year ended Ist. March, 1931, falls due. The person who declares his income to the Commissioner ol 'taxes must iorwaid the appropriate amount ol tax with his declaration, and the person who declares to the Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department must pay the amount of - tax duo on presenvaI ion of hi s deelarateion tut a Moneyorder ollice.

Youths who attain the' age of 20 years after Ist Xovcnihcr, 1931, and on or before Ist. February. 1932, are liable for the February instalment of the cliarge on income. Default in payment of the charge for more than a month after the duo date renders a person liable, on summary conviction, to a line of £5, and also to a penalty, without conviction, of 10 per cent, of the amount of the charge not paid.