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Income tax and the public
Your leader-writer's ples
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Tuesday for free advisory touches service to taxpayers both myself and my colleague of the Acting Commisioner Inland Revenue on the Not because we have Kulliy Cousclentes in the matter, bat because such an advisory ser vice does in fact exist and han, I think, been reasonably well publicised 10 Wir only people who matter-those who actually pay the taxes! The assessment forms srut an- nually to all those able to pay either Salaries or Per- Tax carry Nonal Assessineni
the fellowing invitation Ini- mediately above the signature of the assessor: "If you irny deulty
n
or wish may further information you
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invited to write to me or call at this office."*
Moreover, everyone
who last
which
Jayman's
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star wa sent one of these forms received at the same time allin leaßet prepared by s Department on behalf of the Commissioner
effect, was, in guldr jo The subject Salaries Tax. True, stressed the advantage to the taxpayer of Investing in Tax Reserve Certificates- Hongkong's substitute for the PAYE 55stem--but it also set oui as clearly as we knew how all the details of what con- sules ramied income and what allowances the Tuxpayer may properly claim with numerous examples Li the taxpayer to become Jil+ Dwa assessor.
It was our hope that his leafst
would be intelligible to any ellizen whese 10. 13 xuch as to enable him to command a salary kely to attract fax. The traget also stressed;
An DAY doubt about any taxation problem, please con- Lick the Inland Revenue Department.
Whatever shocks the Financial
Seerglary may have in store for next Wednesday (and I regret that I can lay no claim 10 inside Information!),
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similar and up-to-date leaffet will go out with all assessment fermath year.
Whilst your Teader-writer would teem to have had the salaried faxpayer ehielly In mint the is not entirely clear on this polat) it may not be inappro private to refer to Business Profits taxation.
It is quite true that the busi- ness nian, when making Pro-
fils Tax returns, I called upal to produce rather more complicated figures than the the salaried employee. The assessors of Inland Revenue Department want to see certi- iled copies of his Balance Sheet and Trading and Prolit and Loss Accounts, list of debtors and creditors, details of rent and Interest received and pald, reconciliation state- ments, lists of all new items such as Furniture, Fixtures. Equipment Plant. Machinery, Vehicles, Buildings etc. But these are matters which the
good business man will pay attention to an lils own behalf or will employ a qualified ne- countant to check the details for bin. But the Hongkong man in a small way of busi- ness who does not, employ an accountant need have む more fear of direct approach to the Inland Revenue De. partment than the salaried
Alst him in
every
Way
possible in arriving at truc return.
I make no apology for qualing
obre
again from the leaflet
alycady mentioned. "Omelala of the Department of Inland Revenue are elvil zervants
and as such their
AN
Arst duly
in to serve the community, Members of the
community have right
well Habilities and no taxpayer with an honest problem need over fear anking for the ex- pert advice of the Depart-
"Such advice is given in com
It is mere- picle confidence.
ly necessary to state the pro- blem tby letter, by personal visit or for simple queries- by telephone call)
to aby Assessor in the Department." these Ferhaps the key word in
Your sentences a "honest". leader-writer mentions "Gov. crniment
familiar employees with taxation procedures offer- far to help Chinese taxpayers half at a fee amounting to the
total concessionn (sic)
to which the taxpayers are entitled" and hints broadly a corruption In Government departments.
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There are two parties to every act of corruption he who is corrupted and he who rupla. If our leader-writer's askiemptiona are indeed cor- rect, would it be ancharitable to conclude that the taxpayer who seeks the advice of un- official advisors for a con sideration Instead of taking his problems to those who are quallfled to advise is perhap motivated by the desire to make a dishonest return?
J. L. MURRAY.
employee. The assessors will Director of Information Services,
Sitting on her throne after being chosen Miss Chinatown USA is frono Tsu af New York. She was picked at a ceremony in San Francisco on Saturday night, which officially opened the Chinese New Year celebrations.
At right is Cynthia Chung, 18, first Princess, and loft is Miss Chinatown San Francisco, Nancy Hom, 19.-AP photo,
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'THINKING DAY' FOR GUIDES
'Thinking Day" ceremonies wore observed by three divisions of Girl Guides yesterday in Hongkong, Kowloon and the New Tarritories.
At the Jockey Club Hut in Gascoigne-read, the 1st Kowlona Company was presented with Colcurs dedicated in New Zea- land in 1914. As the company there has now been disbanded it was decided that the Colours should come to Hongkong,
Mrs A. J. Staple, Acting Glony Commissioner, banacd the Colours to Mrs J. Moodle. ore of the plonker Girl Guides of the movement introduced to Hongkong by her father, Mr Duncan Tellon,
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The other two divisions of plans for the replacement the Girl Guldes Association Nos 25-27, Second-street, Hong- bere celebrated their Think-kong by a six-storey structure ing Day" activities in Sandi- costing $140,000.
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tu-
of
described the existing Chinese Mr Pak C. Kwong, archileel,
lenements as being 50 years old and three-storeys high.
Salesgirl stole transistor radio
A door-to-door salesgirl who stole a transistor radio from a flat she visited, was romanded for four days by Mr T. L. Yang at Causeway Bay Court this morning pending a probationary report.
Insp. YC Lam who pro- secuted said that Lee Yiu-ping, 18, Uving at 41, Tung-street,
Jay-walkers fined
Nine Joy-walkers-eight men and one woman-were this morning from $30 10 $70
fined
Mr Peter Mo of Peter Moby Mr T. L. Yang at Causeway day that on Tuesday Air-India and Co appeared for the appli-Bay Court.
cant. Opposing tenants repre Internationa! and the Soviet gented by Mr P. C. Woo and They were arrested on Wed-
| international olrline, Aerotiot, Mr Peter C. Wong Eve evi- resday morning at the junction
agreed to extend
the latter's dence in dispute of bunk space Moscow to Now Delhi air ser measurements. vices to include Rangoon Djakarta.
and
Proceedings continue.
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Business was bad for 22-year- Lee Kwong-kwok of 189 "p" 11e was afraid that his master
their locks
Block, Wong Tai Sin, was coming home when he saw Wong tampering with the lock.
As Lee approached, he walked away. · When Leo tried to open the door, he found the Jock damaged.
As he sat at his lock repair stall in a staircase of "B" block, Wong Tai Sin. re- Reitlement extate, he bad a brainwayo which he know would simulate business, "Ho` went around "the door, of~~-~~~%vong"dy"unaneà ́ut" the ́staka
houres is the area ad and had him arrested, damaged the fecks,
In all to damaged len, - But on the Jant *oeékalote, ba
Was (COD),
In the afternoop, Leo saw
And at the police station,
would dispenso with his -service and so he ran around
damaging locks in the hope! of bringing in repair work.
I took the police to 19 different houses where be had damaged the locks,
At North Kowloon Court lits
morning. MrJE,
· Dargan' remanded Wong for *aven days for a probation report.
Wong admitted that bis sinil : Inspectar, · `0;... M." Dornan
haj, no business,
prosecuted..
first floor, west
first to the cubicle of the fat of 160, Hen- third floor, when neasy-read, the complainant, Yui King-nuí was out shopping
hour She returned half an later to Bnd that a transistor radio worth $150 which she had placed on a table was missing.
to the
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this reported police and Lee was located in the Wanchal area on the same radlo was afternoon. The found in the handbag which she was carrying.
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LEFT: Radio Hongkong's Tod Thomas listens to
directions from movie pro- ducer Ben Hart (right) before the start of filming a series of . Instructional
films in which Ted Thomas%
explains the forthcoming
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Talavision viewers.
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BELOW: Miss Joan Me- Korness, of the U.S. Con- sulate, who opened the HK
Children's Welfare Centro
milk station at Aberdeen
on Monday, serving a child. with a drink.
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From tho Files
25
years AGO.
February 1936-
TTIS Excellency, the Gov. Hanous appointed Mr
R. A. C. North to act as Secretary for Chinese: Affairs. Dr D. J. Valentine has been appointed to act as Deputy Director of Medical Mr and Sanitary Services. T. R. Rowell has been ap pointed to act as an Inspec- tor of English Schools vice Mr James Ralston on leave. Mr W. J. Lockhart-Smith has been appointed to act na Land Officer in addition to his other duties during the absence of Mr T. S. White until further Smith notice. Miss Kathleen Tric- kett has been appointed a nursing sister.
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His Majesty the King today approved the appointment of Sir Hughe Montgoniery Knatchbull-Hugessen, the pre- Rent
at British Minister Teheran, to the ambassador- ship in China..
He succeeds Sir Alexander Cadogan, who has been ap→ pointed Deputy Under- Secretary of State for Foreign Afairs in succession to Sir Victor Wellesley, whose retire- ment was recently announced.
Chinese circles warmly wet- cone Sir Alexander Cadogan's appointment on a further in- dication of the Government's increasing attention to China.
Sir Hughe has long been marked out for promotion, nud 2008 considered a possibility for China when Sir Alexander was appointed.
He has the reputation of {being one of the bright lights of the 'Diplomatic Corpa "and is a man of most pleasing Į personality.
THE idol of thousands of
Anna May Wong, famous Chinese film star, arrived here yesterday evening from Shanghai by the President Grant.
This is her first visit to Sustained China and sho la fulfilling o Injuries when the bloycle he long-felt desire to visit the was riding collided with
country from which her lorry in Kun Tong-road at parents came. 5.30 pm yesterday, • The in- jured man, Poon Bing-yim, The first person she met was admitted to Kowloon
on arrival was her elder Iospital.
sister, Miss Wong Ying, Chan Po-hus, a 16-year-old star of the MGM film "Eg-
boy, was injured when he was kimo". knocked down by a private
car at the Junction of Un Chau-street and Camp-airect
They had not seen one
at about 2.30 am today. The another for more than two Injured boy was admitted to years, having last been to- Kowloon Hospital.
gether in America.
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