INCOME TAX FORMS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 256, 28 October 1937, Page 6

INCOME TAX FORMS

MORE SIMPLICITY DESIRED FARMERS’ UNION DISCUSSION TASK AT PRESENT A “FORM OF TYRANNY.” “We pay land tax, income ta.\, employment tax, benzine tax, tyre tax, third party risk tax, harbour tax, hospital tax, county tax, dog tax, and rabbit tax. It is harrassing enough to have to pay them all without having to go to the unnecessary work officialdom demands of us in completing the land and income* tax forms.” This observation was made by Mr. W. J. B. Tripe (Fordell) in support of a request to the Wanganui Provincial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union yesterday for some form of protest at the intricacies of the land and income tax forms which farmers had to complete each year. He contended that the way information was asked for in .the form was harrassing. It simply meant that a citizen could not make out his own return of income without the assistance of professional advice and guidance. “It is a form of tyranny which is particularly irksome,” he said. Mr. Claud Smith (Brunswick) stated that in certain instances the forms asked for were alterative. If one had been completed there was no need for another. Mr. Tripe: Then that information should be more widely broadcast. I congratulate Mr. Smith on having it. I still say that some protest should be made to simplify the supply of details. The meeting carried a motion to the effect that more uniformity was desired in regard to the collection of details, greater simplicity and a definite indication given on each form as to what exemptions the taxpayer was entitled to. In this last connection Mr. Tripe pointed out that it stated plainly that losses of the previous year were not allowed as exemptions. When he had protested on this point a refund was allowed him.