WAGE TAX PAYMENTS
EMPLOYER BEFORE COURT SUBSTANTIAL FINE IMPOSED (Peb United Pbesb Association.) ASHBURTON, February 22. At the Ashburton Magistrate’s Court to-day David James MTntyre was charged on three counts, covering three years, with having failed to pay in the emergency tax deducted from his employees’ wages, the sum involved being £ll9 17s 9d. The defendant had been told last year that the proceedings which were pending would be stayed to see how he got on with the payments. The magistrate (Mr OrrWalker) said he did not think that the board should do this sort of thing, holding a prosecution over a man’s head. The tax was deducted from employees’ wages, - but he had kept it in his pocket. Counsel said that the difficulty had arisen chiefly by reason of the defendant’s financial position. The defendant was fined £7 10s and costs (£1 Is)'on the first charge, and on the others he was ordered to come up for sentence within 12 months if called on.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22504, 23 February 1935, Page 10
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