THE UNEMPLOYMENT TAX

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21645, 16 May 1932, Page 8

THE UNEMPLOYMENT TAX

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—According to' your footnote to my last letter, the Act of 1932 superseded the Act of 1931. With that I quite agree, but we differ as to the date on which the 1932 Act became effective. It came into operation on May 1, 1932, and therefore from May 1 all taxpayers pay at the rate of Is in the £. But my contention is that taxpayers on income should pay at the rate of 3d in the f from February 1, 1932, to April 30, the same rate as the people with salaries and wages paid for that period. I have never before heard of legislation which affected some people from one date and other people from another date. I maintain also that income taxpayers have been overcharged by paying on a third of a year’s income for a fourth of a year. The rate should have been a fourth of the income taxed for a fourth of a year. I have been engaged in scholar Me work all my life, and I have yet to pain that a third is equal to a fourth. The fault lies with the officials administering the Acts. Newspaper correspondence gets one nowhere in these matters, and as far as I am concerned the matter is now closed, although I shall be delighted to discuss the matter with anyone who cares to call on me.—l am, etc., F. Hilgendorf. North-East Valley, May 14.