POPPY DAY FUNDS
TAXATION IN DUNEDIN ACTION IS DEPLORED (Special to Tunes.) DUNEDIN. Friday Deductions of wages tax. from Poppy Day funds distributed to ex-soldiers was deplored in Dunedin to-day when the annual appeal caused the matter to be raised. A sum of £1 443 was j collected to-day. The question was asked why the public’s free gift to the soldiers should be classified as wages, no matter under what heading it reaches them. DENIAL IN WELLINGTON ONLY WAGES AFFECTED (Special to Times) WELLINGTON, Fri day That the total contribution of the public on Poppy Day was subject to the social security contribution of a shilling in the pound, was contradicted bv officers of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association to-night. The secretary. Mr J. Spence, after confirming the Wellington association s opinion bv consultation with the secretary of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Associaton, Mr .1. Harrison, said the public’s contribution was not taxed, but that if some money were paid out in wages, which was the case with only a very small sum in Wellington, the." recipient had to pay tax on his wages
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20786, 22 April 1939, Page 8
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