NOT LOST SIGHT OF

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 299, 17 December 1937, Page 7

NOT LOST SIGHT OF

INCIDENCE OF TAXATION GOVERNMENT’S INTENTION IMPORTANT BILLS TO COME [ Per Press Association. I WELLINGTON. Dec. 16. The Government has not lost sight of its intention, announced earlier this year, to review ‘he incidence of taxation. This was made clear by the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage), in an interview this evening, when he indicated that taxation legislation would he one of the major measures with which Parliament would be required to deal when it resumes its work early next year. "A measure to provide for the removal of many of the existing anomalies in the incidence of taxation was promised earlier this year, and we have not overlooked it,” said Mr. Savage. "At the moment we cannot attempt, a wholesale revision of the taxation system of the country, but, of course, that will have to be faced up to. This legislation, along with that dealing with national health insurance, national superannuation and education, will constitute the major business of the second part of the session. National health insurance and superannuation may possibly require two Bills. Cabinet will be concentrating on these measures when its meetings are resumed immediately after the law draftsman has a reasonable to prepare the necessarx Bills, particularly that dealing with natiora’. superannuation.