ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25175, 16 March 1943, Page 2

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

"Atalanta," Balclutha.—lf you communicate with Mr J. V. Hanna, 457 Highgate, Hoslyn, you will be supplied with the information for which you ask. “ Doubtful.”—An apiarist who does not solicit orders by way of advertisement, placard, or circular may sell his honey at his apiary direct to the consumer without having the id per lb seal affixed. “Tax Conscious.”—(l) The tax payable on the taxable balances of earned income of the undermentioned amounts :s as follows :-£ 1000, £241 13s 4d; £ISOO, £425: £2OOO, £650; £2500. £9lo 13s 4d, £3OOO, £1225; £4OOO, £1959 6s Bd. -2) It would be necessary to know the taxable incomes for the years 1937-38-39-40-41-42 before it would be possible to give a direct answer to the question with respect to excess profits tax. Unless the taxable income is more then £SOO. The amount. exempt from the excess profits tax. " Gardener,” Roxburgh.—The trees and main roots could be destroyed by, boring half-inch auger holes sloping down Into the centre of the stump and filling with a mixture of saltpetre and kerosene. The holes should then be plugged and refilled two or three times a week. After about • month of this treatment, the stumps can be burnt out easily and the remaining outlying roots grubbed out "Curious,"- Green Island.—ihe actual out-of-pocket cost in obtaining probate of estates valued at between £SOO and £2OOO Is £4. made up ot sealing: fee on probate (£3) and various affidavits (£ll. No definite scale of charges has been fixed bv lawyers in respect of the obtaining of probate of a soldier’s will, but most practitioners have agreed to charge a smaller amount than that payable in respect ot an ordinary estate. (2) If the beneficiary is the wife, mother, father or lineal descendant, a soldier’s estate is exempt from death duties up to the sum o£ £SOOO Jf the beneficiary is any other relative, (brother, sister, etc.), the ordinary rates Of duty are payable.