FINCH APPEAL
COMMISSIONER LOSES CASES.
DEATH DUTIES DISALLOWED,
(Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, January 22.
The. Judicial Committee of the Privy Council allowed, with costs the appeal by Mrs Olive Finch, of Wellington, as executrix of her husband, Charles Edmund Finch, versus the Commissioner of 'Stamp Duties, respecting the commissioner's claim on £1982 for death duties.
The committee uphold the original judgment of the Chief Justice of the Now Zealand 'Supreme Court that the £1982 paid for alterations to Finch’s house was not a gift to the wife, but was expended to improve the home without the intention of evading death duties.
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Northern Advocate, 23 January 1929, Page 4
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