They’ll Get It

Just The Same

It turns out that the Fiji ex port tax on sugar collected dur ing the period December 8, 1955, to the present, has been illegal—all £F207,596 of it.

However, the Government will get it just the same. At the current meeting of Fiji Legco, a bill will be introduced to validate the tax collected', and another will reintroduce the tax.

One day in late May, while he was in his counting house count ing over his money, the Comptroller of Customs sud denly found that he had no authority for collecting the tax.

The Law Officers at once gave instructions to cease collecting it.

All very legally proper, of course, but the end result is the same—because the Estimates for 1959 take collections from sugar export tax into consideration, and if the money were not forthcoming from that quarter it would just have to be screwed out of someone else.