SOCIAL SECURITY TAX
RAILWAY SICKNESS BENEFITS QUESTION OF EXEMPTION ‘From Our Parliamentary Reporter* WELLINGTON, July 11. An inquiry whether the Acting Minister of Social Security (Mr W. E. Parry) will take the necessary steps to exempt railway sickness benefits from the obligation to pay the social security tax is contained in a question of which Mr S. G. Holland (Opposition, Christchurch North) gave notice in the House of Representatives to-day. Mr Holland is asking the Minister whether his attention has been drawn to a circular issued at the Hutt Railway Workshops to all members of the Government Railway Employees’ Sick Benefit Society, advising them that any sick benefits paid to members must be regarded as income and became liable to the social security tax of Is in the £.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23858, 12 July 1939, Page 12
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