Dear Sir,
303/1.
COPY.
DEPARTMENT OF KINES AND RESOURCES
IMIGRATION BRANCH,
HONG KONG.
December 14th, 1940.
Your No.303/1.
I have yours of the 10th instant, your file No.
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You are right when you say that Canadian Govern-
ment officials, residing abroad, are not liable to Canadian
Income Tax. This is according to the Law, but to avoid any
amendments, all such officials are now paying income tax by
monthly deduction in salaries. This is definitely to off-set
income tax paid by employees of the Government in Canada anâ
this is the explanation given by my Chief at Ottawa.
As regards myself, I wish to advise that I have
no other source of revenue or income subject to taxation; and
so the Canadian Income Tax I paid for the year 1939, is in re-
spect of income from my salary. The receipt shows that my
taxes have been paid for the year 1939. It means for the year
1939 and no other year, and not as part payment of taxes.
I should like to say to you frankly what I propose
saying to my Government. It is this: My wife was pushed off
the Colony in a great hurry and in great distress. It cost me
a considerable amount to pack up our valuable household goods
and chattels and ship them off to Canada; and together with my
wife's expenses, it has drained our resources. Why was my wife
evacuated while high Government officials, leading lawyers and
other influential people still have their wives with them? Is
Canada in this war for such discriminatory legislation? Again,
my wife has been obliged for reasons of health, due, in the main,
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