THE SALES TAX

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22612, 2 July 1935, Page 10

THE SALES TAX

POSITION IN TAILORING TRADE DUNEDIN ACTION DISAPPROVED (Special to Daily Times) AUCKLAND, July 1. According to advice received by the Auckland Master Tailors’ Association a test case will probably be brought shortly by the Customs Department against the Dunedin Association for non-payment of the sales tax. Dissatisfaction with the imposition of the tax has been expressed by tailors throughout the Dominion, but in a statement to-day Mr H. N. Preston, president of the Auckland Association, strongly criticised the action of the Dunedin tailors in refusing to pay. “ The Auckland Association has been dissatisfied with the basis on which tailors have been required to pay the sales tax ever since the Act was passed,” Mr Preston said. He emphasised the point, however, that the Auckland tailors did not approve of the policy of the Dunedin tailors in refusing to pay the tax, and said he believed that under the law the department was entitled to claim payment. The Auckland Association considered that the Customs Department was one of the moat reasonable of the Government departments and felt that relief could best be obtained by an approach along constitutional lines.