THE INCOME TAX.
[TO MR EDITOR OF Tni " spxoTAToft.-] Siu,—In contrast to the noisy protests which some civilian interests are making against the Budget proposals, the silence of military and naval officers is the more marked. Yet their case is surely the hardest of any—perhaps in present circum- stances the only case that merits consideration. Is it generous or just that those who have volunteered their lives on behalf of their country should be expected to pay tax on their official income P Their pay is meagre and wholly Out of proportion to their service, and now an appreciable percentage is going to be deducted as Income Tax. This is hard on the unmarried officer; it is both a hardship and an anxiety to the married. Several writers and many happen.
ings are telling us that r" -„i politician has under. mined representative g .,enment. This would indeed seem true, if powerful interests at home obtain their remissions and rebates, while the officers of the Services make silent sacrifice. If we are to be sentimental, is it to be over picture. postcards or the picked men of the nation P Sir, will you not use your influence to redress this wrong P—I am, Sir, &c.,
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