UNEMPLOYMENT TAXES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21325, 28 October 1932, Page 13

UNEMPLOYMENT TAXES

INSPECTORS APPOINTED FOUR FOR AUCKLAND PROVINCE In pursuance of the announcement made a month ago, that the Unemployment Board intended to appoint a number of inspectors to investigate the payment or non-payment of unemployment taxation, four Auckland postal officials have been loaned to the board as investigating officers for work in the Auckland Province. The four officers will shortly be allotted to defined districts, which together will comprise the whole province. They will work in co-operation with officials of the Department of Labour, and with local postmasters who are at present carrying out duties connected with unemployment taxation. The immediate purpose is to ascertain how far the requirements of the law regarding the tax upon wages and salaries are being complied with. There is reason to believe that in some cases employees have been affixing ordinary revenue stamps to their wage-receipts instead of the special unemployment tax stamps, with consequent loss of revenue to tho Unemployment Board. There may also be instances of non-payment of the tax, either through ignorance of the law or as a result of deliberate evasion. The inspecting officers will deal at the same time with questions relating to the quarterly levy and tho tax .on income other than salaries or wages.