PAYE is Unpopular
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THE Suva Chamber of Commerce is almost unanimously against the proposed system of Pay-as you-earn income taxation, said the president of the Chamber (Mr. W. G.
Johnson) in his 1953 annual re port. The system placed the re sponsibility of collecting employees’
Income Tax on employers. Onlv two influential members of the Chamber supported the proposal.
IT Mr. J. K. Stone, who has been for nine years in Fiji, in the service of the Fiji Times, completed his en gagement there on November 30, and proposes to return to journalism in New Zealand. Mr. Stone is a newspaper man of unusual ability, and while acting as sub-editor of the Suva newspaper, and occasion ally as editor, he also was the Fiji representative of most of the world’s big news agencies and associations.
Thus, for nine years, the world has seen Fiji mostly through the eyes of JKS. Mr. Stone took a keen in terest in sociological matters, especi ally the racial problem as between Fijians and Indians, and has written copiously on the subject.