Appeal Court Ruling Causes Concern To Employers
(P.A.)
DUNEDIN, This Day,
Recently the Court of Appeal gave a ruling regarding the liability of employers in the matter of taxation where subsidies are being granted members of staffs in the armed forces. The ruling was to the effect that employers are not entitled to claim as a deduction from assessable income payments made to employees in the services, and that such payments, being gifts do not come within the meaning of section 4 of the act as “income of employees.”
This ruling has caused considerable concern, for it implies that employers are liable for retrospective payment of taxes on all subsidies paid to members of the forces. The position has been considered by the Dunedin Manufacturers' Association and that body has communicated with the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation in Wellington requesting that it take the matter up with the authorities and have it thoroughly analysed.
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Northern Advocate, 22 February 1943, Page 2
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