THE UNEMPLOYMENT TAX

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22326, 28 July 1934, Page 10

THE UNEMPLOYMENT TAX

TO TUB EDITOR

Sib, —As a youth employed on a farm and earning a few shillings to keep the home going, I would like to comment on the way in which youths are being taxed. I earn a sum which in itself is ample to supply my wants, but an interfering and over-anxious Government, which in a wellmeaning way tries its best to keep the country’s ba'lance on the right side of the ledger, steps in and takes away 2s in the £l—ls for wages tax and Is for food and lodging tax. Now, Sir, if a youth had the misfortune to lose his job he would find it an absolute impossibility to get a job under the unemployment schemes to which he is forced to contribute. I sincerely hope the men whom we sent to Wellington to attend to the ruling of this country, which at one time was called “God’s own country,” will do something to remedy this utter injustice. Is it a right thing that our youths should be robbed of their hard-earned wages and have their ambitions dashed to the ground?—l am, etc., A Bio Mua. July 24. [For the purposes of assessing wages tax board and lodging are computed at 15s per week. Unless he is receiving an equivalent of £2 per week, including the amount of 15s, our correspondent is being over-taxed. — Ed. O.D.T.]