FEDERAL LAND TAX.
VIGOROUS PROTESTS MADE. SPEAKER URGES NON-PAYMENT. SYDNEY, March 31. A Victorian accountant, ,l)r. Casey, speaking at a meeting of the New feouth Wales Taxpayers' Association in protest against the Federal land tax and urging its abolition, suggested that if the Government did not remove unjust taxes the taxpayers should rise in a body and tell the Administration they would not pay. Dr.' Casey contended that a great deal of blufling was practised, mentioning one case in which tho Taxation Commissioner revoked an extra valuation of .£20.000 as soon as the assessment was challenged.
Taxation should be spread over a wider field, and everybody should pay something either in money or labour.
Mr. A. S. Watts, of Sydney, said the present land taxation had destroyed profitable sheep stations and created unprofitable wheat farms.
The meeting passed a resolution in favour of the immediate removal of the tax.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21146, 1 April 1932, Page 9
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