TAXATION BURDENS
PRESSING HEAVILY ON HEADS OF CHURCHES. PROPOSAL TO GRANT PENSIONS. (Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, January 30. (Received Jan. 31, at 6.5 p.m.) With the object of avoiding what are regarded as unfair taxation reductions in stipends—the Archibishop of Canterbmy from £15,000 to £SOOO, the Archbishop of York from £IO,OOO to £3OOO, the-Bishop of London from £IO,OOO to £3339, the (Bishop of Durham from £7OOO to £2259 and the Bishop of Winchester from £BSOO to £2l66—it will be proposed at the church assembly, opening in London on February 8, that these dignatories at present pay the income super-taxes on the full stipend, from (which they meet the church, as well as their personal expenses. It is also proposed that archbishops hould have pensions of £ISOO, the three bishops named pensions of £IOOO and the others £BOO towards the cost of which they twill pay three and a half per cent, of their stipends. The scheme provides for better pay for the poorer clergy.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19702, 1 February 1926, Page 7
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