SALES TAX TO GO

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 281, 30 November 1935, Page 10

SALES TAX TO GO

UNEMPLOYMENT ACT ALTERATION MAY BE MADE OVERHAUL OF TAXATION [ Per Press Association. I AUCKLAND, Nov. 29. If sufficient power does not exist under the Unemployment Act to make proper provision lor the unemployed before Christmas, the Prime Minister-elect intends to call Parliament together next month to pass the legislation. If the power exists then Parliament will be called not later than February and a long session will be held to pass legislation embracing a number of the main planks of the Labour Party’s programme, Mr. Savage informed an interviewer this morning. The sales tax would be abolished at the earliest possible moment, and steps would be taken to investigate the incidence of taxatic-n generally with a view to an alteration of the law. With reference to the length of Parliament Mr. Savage definitely stated that when three years had expired an appeal would be made to the country. ‘-We’ve no intention to run for four years. The law will be altered,” he said. Questioned regarding housing, Mr. Savage saw no reason why surveys should not be carried out. They must make it possible for people to have proper housing facilities. The basis must be the question of wages and income and would possibly be done through the local bodies, but the State must accept the financial responsibility. NEW GOVERNMENT SOCIETY OF ACCOUNTANTS SAME ASSISTANCE AS IN FAST. [ Per Tress Association. ] WELLINGTON, Nov. 29. A meeting of the executive of the , New Zealand Society of Accountants passed the following motion: “That the New Zealand Society of Accountants as a non-political organisation, offers to the new Government its co operation for the good of the Dominion. In the past, when called upon by the Government for the time being, the society, or its individual members, have given such assistance as they were able to give, and the society will be ■ pleased to render to the present Government such public service as it has Liven to former Governments.”