INCOME TAX RETURNS.
SEVEN DEFAULTERS FINED. MAGISTRATE ISSUER WARNING. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, November 8. “ All these cases brought this morning are what we call bad cases, those prosecuted being men with fairly large incomes,” said the income tax inspector at the Police Court this morning, when seven prosecutions were brought for failing to furnish returns of income. Mr Ward, who prosecuted for the Commissioner of Taxes, said that in most cases default assessments had been made for several years. The following were each fined £2 and costs (£2 12s): —R. P Hunt, A. E. Moore, H. A. Purser, J. C. Simmonds, P. J. Scantlebury, Allan Murdoch Smith, and H. R. Tyler. “The next time similar charges are brought here the fines will be much higher,” remarked Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20870, 9 November 1929, Page 11
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133INCOME TAX RETURNS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20870, 9 November 1929, Page 11
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