Fiji Collects Almost Half Million
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In Income Tax
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, September 20.
INCOME tax collected in Fiji in 1946 totalled £447,080, and came from 2,319 persons and companies. Euro pean taxpayers and companies accounted far a large proportion of the t0ta1£391,138. £391,138.
Although only £249 was paid in in come tax by individual Fijians, com pared with £38,914 paid by Indians, Fijian companies paid £1,271, compared with only £1,553 paid by Indian com panies.
A total of £6,218 came from arbitrary assessments and penalties, of which Indians accounted for £4,883, Chinese for £1,266 and Europeans for £69.
Racial groups of taxpayers numbered: Europeans 1,666, Indians 455, Chinese 172, Fijians 23, others 3.
Mr. Tom Flower, well-known Territories sawmiller, has been ordered by his doc tor to go “South,” and he and his family will be making a permanent departure from Port Moresby for Sydney within a few weeks. Mr. Flower has shipped a great deal of lumber from Papua during the past two years.