TAXES IN MAY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23026, 2 May 1938, Page 10

TAXES IN MAY

NOT A "MERRY MONTH" MANY RETURNS REQUIRED EMPLOYMENT AND MOTOR-CARS In English rhyme and story it has been customary for centuries to refer to the month which opened yesterday as "the merry month of May," but in New Zealand taxpayers in general, and motorists in particular, will regard its advent with anything but merriment. It is a month given over almost entirely to the filling up of forms and the paying of taxes. If a taxpayer who also happened to own a motor-car was to attempt in any one day to meet all the obligations which tho Government has placed on him this month, tho task might well j prove beyond him. In the first place, he would have to pay his quarterly instalment of the employment levy, filling in his coupon book and tendering the necessary os, and then he would have to make his declaration of income other than salary or wages and pay either the full tax of 8d in the £1 on that amount or else the first quarterly instalment of the total tax. The position is to be further complicated this year by the action of the Government in demanding a "declaration of industrial and occupational status." Leaving the Chief Post Office, the taxpayers would have to make his way to the motor licensing bureau in the Wellesley Street Post Office. There he would have to make out the usuaj number of multi-coloured forms for the purpose of relicensing his motor-car, receiving a new set of number plates and taking out his compulsory insurance to cover third party risk. Motorists will have to meet an additional impost this year, as the third party insurance rate on private motor-cars has been advanced from i7s to £l. The rates for business cars, taxis and private hire cars have also been increased. The remaining task for the taxpayer this month is the furnishing of his return of income derived during the year ended March 31. The return has to be completed this month and forwarded to the Commissioner of Taxes on or before June 1. It is no less complicated than in previous years and even the facts that the tax demand will not appear for some months and that the tax itself will not fall due until next February are not likely to generate any great degree of maytime merriment.

WEEK-END ACCIDENTS

SIX PEOPLE INJURED YOUTH'S CONDITION SERIOUS GIRLS CUT BY BROKEN GLASS Six accidents were reported in Auckland at the week-end, two occurring on the Mangere Bridge, Onehunga", on Saturday. In one case the victim's condition is considered to be fairly serious, but the others did not receive serious injuries. When he was knocked from his bicycle after a collision with a motorcar on Mangere Bridge on Saturday evening, £i youth, Valentine Edmund Delaney, aged 16, employed. as a painter, who lives with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Delaney, Hastie Avenue, Mangere, injured his head and was admitted to the Auckland Hospital. His condition is fairly serious. As the result of a punctured tyre a light motor-truck, which was being driven across the Mangere Bridge toward Onehunga on Saturday morning, struck a polo on the' left side of the bridge, and two girls, the Misses Overend, of Woodsvard Avenue, Mangere, who were passengers in the truck, were cut by glass from the broken windscreen. They were treated by Dr. W. H. Thomas, of Onehunga, and were able to go home. An Association football player, Mr. Charles Henry Tidman, aged 26, married, of Jutland Road, Takapuna, suffered a fracture of the right leg when playing for North Shore against Grey Lynn on Saturday. Two motor-cars were fairly extensively damaged as the result of a collision at the corner of Great North Road and Portage Road, Avondale, early on Saturday morning. The drivers escaped injury. One of the vehicles was travelling along the main road in a westerly direction and had just passed over the Whau Bridge and the other was turning out of Portage Road in the direction of Auckland when the accident occurred. The former ran off the road into the hedge at the left side of the road after the impact.

Two people received injuries from jFalls in their homes; at the week-end. Mrs. Mary Agnes Smeal, of 3 Grange Road, Mount Eden, broke hgr right leg when she fell down some steps, and Mrs. Catharine Woolf, aged 73, a widow, of 25 Edwin Street, Newton, fractured her right arm in a similar manner. They were taken to the Auckland Hospital in St. John ambulances, which also carried the other accident victims to hospital. FRACTURED SHOULDER CAMBRIDGE FOOTBALL MISHAP [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Sunday While playing in a football match at Cambridge yesterday, Leonard Broderson, aged 18, received a fractured shoulder. He was admitted to the Waikato Hospital. COLLISION WITH OAR CYCLIST SERIOUSLY HURT [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] GISBORNE, Sunday A cyclist, Mr. Ronald Skilton, aged 27, was seriously injured in a collision with a car, driven by Mr. John Malcolm Kay, last evening in Stout Street.