RETURN OF OVERPAID INCOME TAX.
[To TEE EDITOR 07 TEL " Sywrgyos."3 think you will agree with me that the way the public are kept waiting for a .return of their overpaid Income Tax is not the right way to treat them. Until this year I have had a cheque sent me for the amount of my claim, but this year I sent particulars early in April to the tax surveyor ;for my district, but instead of his sending .a cheque, he informed me that the amount of my claim would go to meet the second instalment of tax on some property I have in another county over one hundred miles from where I live, and where I pay the tax on the rest of my property. These distant rents are not due until the end of the year, and not all are paid for a month or two later, so I do not get statement and cheque until some time in February. Therefore, from April, 1921, to about February. 19, I am kept out of money due to me, and the interest also. To this loss is added the trouble of bookkeeping and adjustment of accounts, for of course, there is a difference in the amount each way. This is •hardly the way -to treat one, especially in these hard times.—I am, Sir, &c., Vieux.
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