RATES AND PENALTIES.
To the Editor. Sir. —County councils and town boards add ten per cent., to rates if they are not paid by a certain date. Would it not be fairer to charge bank interest from month to month in cases where ratepayers’ income is only just enough to keep hunger away. In August they got one-seventh to onefifth of their annual income in the shape of deferred payments. Then they pay their rates, which often amount to fifteen shillings or £1 per cow. These ratepayers have no chance of getting ahead, but they pay up every August, plus the ten per cent, on their rates account. I am, etc., SUFFERER.
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Northern Advocate, 22 June 1937, Page 7
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112RATES AND PENALTIES. Northern Advocate, 22 June 1937, Page 7
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