PENALISED FOR THRIFT
AGED PEOPLE'S BURDEN
EMERGENCY TAXATION
The Papatoetoo Chamber of Commerce decided at its meeting on Monday evening to communicate with the Minister of Employment advocating that relief should be granted for people over 60 years of ago with small independent means in the form of a £52 exemption from tho payment of tho emergency unemployment income tax.
" It is a disgrace to the country that aged people, who have inado small provision to keep themselves off the old-age pension, should bo penalised for their thrift under the unemployment emergency tax," said the president, Mr. H. M. Didsbury. The chamber decided at a previous meeting to place before the Minister of Employment a particular case concerning a couple, whose ages were 76 and 78 years, and whose net income was £73 per annum, where the tax placed them in an embarrassing position. A reply stating that the case bad been considered, and that relief could not be granted, was received by the chamber last evening.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21347, 23 November 1932, Page 12
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