INCOME TAXES RAISED TO AID JOBLESS ARMY
INCOME TAXES RAISED TO AID JOBLESS ARMY Australia Takes Drastic Steps to Give Aid to Its Unemployed Workers WASHINGTON— Unemployed relief funds are being raised in the state of Victoria,...
...INCOME TAXES RAISED TO AID JOBLESS ARMY Australia Takes Drastic Steps to Give Aid to Its Unemployed Workers WASHINGTON— Unemployed relief funds are being raised in the state of Victoria, Australia, through a. levy on wages and an additional tax on incomes, according to information forwarded to the Department of Commerce by Wilbur Keplinger, United States consul at Melbourne...
...The law also provides sustenance lor persons lor whom employment can not be found...
...The funds will be used for public works...
...Varying contributions, based on ages, are made to the insurance fund by working men, wom-;n and children...
...Similar contributions me made liy employers and the government...
...The Victorian law provides for a tax of 2 cents on a wage of $5 a week, with a larger tax on higher wages...
...The British system is compulsory and was established in 1912...
...The Victorian plan differs from the British unemployment insurance act, which provides for money relief to unemployed...
...He deducts the workers' contribution from his pay...
...This system is called a "dole" in the United States by persons who picture Idle British workers walking up to tht national treasury every week and securing benefits rather than accepting ivork...
...The- tax on incomes range from about $8.45 on yearly incomes of $1,750 to about $320 on incomes up lo $25,000...
...In the ense of men between the ages of 21 and fi5 years, the government contributes 15 cents a week, the employer 16 cents and the workers 14 cents...
...applied to few industries, hut, since then has been enlarged...
...is expected that approximately $5,000,000 will be raised...
...The facts are that the worker pays ipproxiinatcly one-third of the benefit, inrt this can not he withdrawn if he revises employment, or violates any other strict regulation that ('surrounds distribution of the fund...
...These special taxes are to be in force for a year and It...
...The employes' and workers' contributions are paid through stamp,- issued by the post office, which are bought by the employer...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 38
