BACHELOR TAX.

NZ Truth, Issue 571, 27 May 1916, Page 11

BACHELOR TAX.

There's nothing now, -whatever some people may think, m the suggestion that bachelors should bo taxed, since, (or a time at any rate, such a scheme for raking m the national shekels was In. full operation here. . By un Act of Parliament, 6 and 7, William 111., cap. 6. power was obtained for the Imposition ot "certain rates and duties upon , . . bachelors and widows, for the term of five years, for carrying on the war with Franc© with vigor." But tho tax. Instead of being kept within tho five years limit, lasted from 1695 till 1706, during which period all bachelors over twenty-flve years of

ago were mulct according to position, from the shilling per annum of tho "common fellow" to the £12 10s of a duko. Subsequently, In 1785 another bachelors' tax took the form of heavier duties upon their servants than those of other persons.