UNEMPLOYMENT TAX

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 31, 28 January 1933, Page 3

UNEMPLOYMENT TAX

INSTALMENTS DUE NEXT MONTH NEED FOE PROMPTITUDE An instalment of five shillings of the general unemployment levy of 20s per annum will become due on February 1, and on that date also the fourth, instalment of the emergency unemployment charge on income other than salary or wages for the year ended March 31, 1932,. (one penny in each amount of one shilling and eightpence) will be payable. It should not be necessary to stressthe need for prompt payment of these taxes. To omit to pay them during Februarv is not only <i breach of the law, but it results in the curtailment of the unemployment board’s revenue, necessitating a reduction in the amount of relief that can be provided for the unemployed. With over 400,000 mon liable for the levy the process of investigation to ascertain who have and who have not paid is necessarily slow, but it may be taken for granted that the Post Office system is thoroughly efficient, and that sooner or later defaulters will be required to explain their non-compliance with the law. Periodically the police arc supplied with lists containing the names of those who are alleged to have defaulted, and when that stage iias boon reached court proceedings usually follow. Because there still appears to be some misapprehension on the subject, it is necessary to reiterate that all males Upon reaching the age of twenty years become liable for payment ofthc unemployment levy and the emergency unemployment charge on income other than salary or wages.