INCOME TAXATION
TAPPING new sources LAVISH TIPS CITED HOTEL PORTER’S FORTUNE (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copy r igh t.) (Received 9 a.m.) . LONDON, March 20. The Government is seeking a new source of income tax revenue and has ordered tax collectors to do their utmost to secure assessment against all persons whose ordinary income Is habitually augmented by tips above the taxation, limits, included pursers, ~ stewards, pageboys, waiters, hall porters 7 and'- commissionaires. ;^■■•••Lt', is^ ; ¥ecalli§d‘_ late Nicholas -Mhekett;Head 0 portAr at' the Savoy Hotel for many years, left a fortune of £20,000. : ■ : Some pageboys in'West End hotels, says The “Daily Mail,” are known to make £7 a week in tips, and waiters up to £lO. One commissionaire’s tip exceeds £2OOO a year. Others listed for interrogation are golf caddies, gamekeepers, taxi drivers and railway porters.
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Northern Advocate, 21 March 1934, Page 5
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136INCOME TAXATION Northern Advocate, 21 March 1934, Page 5
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