RETURN OF INCOME
PENALTY FOR LATENESS “The Commissioner of ' Taxes wishes it to be stressed that recent prosecutions have not had the desired effect,” said Mr H. T. Gillies in the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton, today when Alexander Johnston Sinclair, company manager, of Te Awamutu, was fined £lO and costs by Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M., for failing to furnish an income tax return by the due date. Prosecutions had been taken in different parts of the country, said Mr Gillies, but the public had not responded. Late returns caused a considerable amount of extra work to the Department and the Commissioner of Taxes wishes that more than the minimum fine for that class of offence should be imposed. The magistrate said he could not see any reason why the return should not have been furnished by the due date. The public should realise that a tremendous amount of extra work was imposed on the department when reminders and asscsaesments had to be sent out.
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Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21524, 12 September 1941, Page 6
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164RETURN OF INCOME Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21524, 12 September 1941, Page 6
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