UNEMPLOYMENT TAXATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 347, 30 April 1935, Page 7

UNEMPLOYMENT TAXATION.

Elsewhere in this issue appears an intimation hy .the Unemployment Board that on Ist. May the usual quarterly instalment of the General Unemployment Levy will become du'e, and that on the came date will also fall due (he first instalment of the Emergency Unemployment Charge of lOd in the £ on income other than salary or wages derived during the year ended 31st. March, 1935.

All male persons, ’including 'Natives, of 20 years of age or over (except those wholly exempt from payment of the General Unemployment Levy) are required in May each year to furnish declarations of income other than salary or wages. If no such income is derived a “nil” declaration is required. A woman whose income other than salary or wages exceeds £SO, must also fu'ruish a declaration in respect of her income. This applies also to Native women.

Full /information and declaration forms are obtainable at all Moneyorder Offices, and payment of the Emergency Unemployment Charge should be made at a local Post Office or to .the Commissioner of Unemployment, Taxation Branch, luvicta House, Wellington, C.l. It is pointed out that persons who fail, to furnish declarations as and when required render themselves liable on summary conviction to a fine of £SO. A penalty equal to 10 per cent, of the amount of .lax due will bo added to any instalment; not paid within one month of the due date. 'The Unemployment Board draws attention to the fact that in many instances unemployment-relief stamps denoting payment of wages tax are not being cancelled in the prescribed manner, and to protect themselves, employees should see that ail such stamps are effectively cancelled by a signature or initials and the date of payment.