EXCESSIVE VALUATIONS.
During the past seven years the Government-, by frequent valuations and by a judicious stimulation of valuers, have doubled the rateable value of property in New -Zealand, and at the same time, rave secured from the people of the Dominion double the taxes which they formerly paid. This, on the face of it, is an absurdity. On this basis in the course of a generation a man’s taxes which started at £lO would be jumped up t-o £IOO. . It has been nice for the Government, but bad for the taxpayer. It is satisfactory to learn that- the Premier has promised to look into the question of valuations throughout New Zealand. In the past the Government have forced them up, but will they now have the courage to force them down?—Wairarapa “Times.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2454, 19 March 1909, Page 2
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133EXCESSIVE VALUATIONS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2454, 19 March 1909, Page 2
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