LEVY DUE SOON.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 118, 30 April 1936, Page 3

LEVY DUE SOON.

o UNEMPLOYMENT TAXATION. Elsewhere in this issue appears an intimation by the Secretary of Labour that on the Ist May the ust<al quarterly instalment of the General Unemployment levy will become clue, and that on the same date will also fall due the first instalment of Emergency Unemployment charge of Sd in the £ on income other than salary or wages derived during tjie year ended 31st March, 1936. All male persons, including Natives, of 20 years of age or over 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 Avages exceeds £SO must also furnish a declaration in respect of her income. This., applies also to Native women.

Full Information and declaration forms are obtainable at nil Money-or-der Offices, and payment of the Emergency Unemployment charge should he made at a local Post Office (or to the Secretary, Department of Labour, Taxation Branch, Invicta House, Wellington, C.l.

It is pointed out that persons who fail to furnish declarations as and when required render themselves 1 liable, on summary conviction, to a fine of £SO. A penalty equal to 10 .per cent of the amount of flax, j due will be added to any-instalment not paid within one month of the due date.