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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1990

SEPARATE TAXATION SYSTEM FURTHER EXPLAINED

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SPOKESMAN SAID

TODAY

BY SOME MARRIED IN RESPONSE TO THE CURRENT CONCERN EXPRESSED

OF THEIR 1989/90 SALARIES WOMEN AT THE HIGHER THAN EXPECTED AMOUNT

DEPARTMENT REVENUE TAX TO BE PAID, AN INLAND (TUESDAY) THAT THIS WAS DUE, IN MANY CASES, TO THE FACT THAT THEY NO PROVISIONAL SALARIES TAX FOR SET-OFF IN THEIR ASSESSMENTS.

HAD NOT ELECTED, WHERE A MARRIED WOMAN

AND SYSTEM OF ASSESSING THE INCOMES OF HUSBANDS RECEIVE A SEPARATE NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT FOR THE TO THE ISSUED OWN INCOME, THE ASSESSMENT WAS REQUIRED TO PAY IT.

HAD

UNDER THE PREVIOUS WIVES TOGETHER, TO TAX PAYABLE ON HER AND

WAS HUSBAND

HE

THE PROVISIONAL TAX THUS ACCORDINGLY, FOR THIS YEAR, HIS USUALLY BE THE CASE.

IS PAID

CREDITED ΤΟ THE HUSBAND. THAN WOULD TAX WILL BE SOMEWHAT LESS

AND WIFE WOULD, IN

THE SPOKESMAN REITERATED THAT NO HUSBAND TOTAL, PAY MORE TAX UNDER SEPARATE TAXATION THAN WOULD HAVE BEEN UNDER THE PREVIOUS SYSTEM.

PAID

HAD BOTH RECEIVED HE EXPLAINED THAT ONCE A HUSBAND AND WIFE

THE TOTAL TAX WOULD

TO COMPARE BE ABLE THEIR DEMAND NOTES THEY

PAYABLE HAD ALL OF THEIR PAYABLE BY THEM AS INDIVIDUALS WITH THAT INCOME BEEN TAXED IN THE NAME OF THE HUSBAND. MANY COUPLES WILL HAVE A REDUCED TAX LIABILITY.

!

HAVE BEEN REQUIRED ΤΟ FOR THESE COUPLES WHO WOULD OTHERWISE

UTILISE HIS PAY MORE TAX, BECAUSE EITHER ONE OF THEM COULD NOT FULLY

HAD VERY SMALL INCOMES, OR HER PERSONAL ALLOWANCES OR BECAUSE THEY THE LAW PERMITS THEM TO ELECT TO BE ASSESSED, AS PREVIOUSLY, ON THEIR JOINT INCOME.

THE INLAND REVENUE DEPARTMENT ESTIMATES THAT THIS YEAR IT

COUPLES BE TO THE ADVANTAGE OF SOME 70,000 MARRIED ASSESSED JOINTLY RATHER THAN SEPARATELY.

WILL

TO

ELECT

то

BE

HAD DEVELOPED COMPLEX ALL MARRIED COUPLES WHO

THE SPOKESMAN

THE DEPARTMENT SAID COMPUTER PROGRAMMES TO IDENTIFY AND NOTIFY WOULD BENEFIT FROM SUCH AN ELECTION.

AND 20,000 BEEN

THESE PROGRAMMES HAVE TAKEN SOME TIME TO DEVELOP AND TEST,

MORE DATE.

THAN OPERATIONAL.

HAVE ELECTION JOINT

ARE ABOUT TO BECOMB FULLY ADVICES OF THE ADVANTAGE OF A ISSUED.

TO ASSESSMENT

HAS ISSUED A RECORD

HIGH

OF 1.

4

-

A 40 PER CENT INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR.

THIS YEAR THE DEPARTMENT MILLION RETURNS TO TAXPAYERS

RETURNS ISSUED THIS

A SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF THE INCREASE IN YEAR IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE INTRODUCTION OF SEPARATE TAXATION MARRIED WOMEN ARE REQUIRED, FOR THE FIRST TIME, TO COMPLETE AND THEIR OWN INDIVIDUAL RETURNS.

BECAUSE

LODGE

/TO DETERMINE