Returns Of Income Due 1st June

Northern Advocate, 22 May 1944, Page 2

Returns Of Income Due Ist June

PENALTIES AND PROSECUTIONS FOR NEGLECT

Returns of income l are required to be furnished by all companies and persons in business, or in receipt of profits or gains derived from the use or occupation of ill! lands used for agricultural or pastoral purposes (irrespective of the value of such lands) or in receipt of profits or gains derived from tlie extraction, removal, or sale of minerals, timber or flax; also by ail persons in receipt of income from salary, wages (including bonuses, overtime, allowances, etc.), interest, rent, annuity, or other annual payment, or dividends or other profits from shares in companies where such income exceeds ■l-200 per annum, whether the income from interest, rent, annuity, or dividends is derived from a source within New Zealand or beyond New Zealand. Returns are required annually from such persons notwithstanding that by reason of the special exemptions allowable by law they may not be liable for tax.

The following teturn forms are available:—

Form No. 3: Income derived from salary or wages: 3A, income derived from farming; 38, income derived from business. or profession; 4, income derived by ;i company. In the case of a person who derives income, from farming - and also from a profession or trading - or manufacturing concern if will be necessary to furnish two returns (forms 3A and 3B).

The return should be completed and forwarded to the Commissioner of Taxes. VY'ellinglon C. 3, on or before the Ist June. If for any reason the return cannot be furnished by the prescribed date, application should be made for an extension of time. Where returns are accepted compiled to a date subsequent to March 31st, they should be furnished within two months of that date. In the absence of a return the Commissioner has power to make an assessment of an amount on which he considers tax ought to be levied. The acceptance ol the estimated assessment, does not, how-, ever, absolve the taxpayer from the duty of furnishing a return.

Persons required by law to furnish returns of income are cautioned that failure to supply such returns renders them liable to prosecution under the penal clauses of the Land and Income Tax Act, 1523. Present .staffing difficulties in tlie Land and Income Tax Department render imperative the necessity for strict compliance with the law. For this reason, taxpayers are warned that it is the intention of the Commissioner of Taxes to take prosecutions in cases of failure to furnish returns of Income. 67