COMMONWEALTH TAXATION
STATES AND FEDERATION. SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S PLIGHT. REPORT ON DISABILITIES. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. A. and N.Z. ADELAIDE. Dec. 22. According to the report of the committee, whjch was appointed by the State Government to report on the evidence to be submitted to the Royal Commission on State Disabilities, the federation of the States, so far as South Australia is concerned, has proved to be a failure. The report says South Australia is unable to meet her liabilities, because of the imposition of destructive taxation, which is out of all proportion to that levied in the other States. As a result of federation the people and industries of South Australia have laboured for many years under a burden of taxation materially heavier than that imposed on the other States. Unless steps are taken to remedy this condition, says the report, the contrast between the prosperity in the manufacturing States in the East and the stagnation in the primary producing States in the West mirt inevitably result in the creation of a spirit of resentment, which might even endanger the federation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19827, 23 December 1927, Page 11
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