Phursday, June 21, 1956.

THE DRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAER, 3.0.

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“THIS WEEK

IN OTTAWA’

By BE. D, Fulton; M.P. z

June 16th, 1956.

DEFEAT

By bill to amend the Income
Tax Act was defeated by the
Government in the House by a
vote of 91 - 55 on Tuesday. That
puts to an end, for this Session
at any rate, the hope that we
could get a change to protect,
the taxpayer against arbitrary
investigations and re-assessments
6, 7, and in some cases even §
years after he has made the re-
turns and paid his taxes.
DELAY
Under the present law Minister
can investigate and re-assess at
any time up to 6 years after he
has made his first assessment of
a taxpayer's return. Since the
first assessment may not be
made until going on for a year
— sometimes longer — after the
return was filed, this means that
the right to re-assess may be ex-
ercised years after all recollec-
tion of the events has faded
from the taxpayer’s memory.
ARBITRARY

The trouble fs that the Act

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place years ago. If the taxpayer
can’t produce the explanation,
backed perhaps by a cancelled
cheque or a receipt (remember,
this may be something which
happened 7 years ago) the De-
partment will make an arbitrary
re-assessment of his tax liabil-
ity, based upon its own interpre-
tation of what happened — and
demand payment of extra tax,
with interest for all the years in
between.

PROTECTION

The effect of my bill was ac-
cordingly to reduce from 6 years
to 3 years'the time within which
the Department had the right to
re-open and re-assess a return.
The only exception" I provided
was that in cases where the De-
partment was prepared to allege
that theré had been fraud or
wilful misrepresentation in mak-
ing the return, then they could
investigate’ and re-open without
any time limit. The purpose, as
will be seen, was to protect the
innocent Canadian who has
honestly, conscientiously and to
the best of his ability prepared
and filed his return and paid his
tax, from being persecuted by
the Department and from hav-
ing impossible demands made on
him years after the event. It
still left the crook liable to im-
vestigation and action at any
time.

REJECTION

The bill came up for debate
on April 24th. There seemed to
be quite a body of favourable
sentiment. In fact, I was told
the Government was considering
loads the déck in favour of the
Department..They can descend
on a taxpayer, busy with his
current affairs, and demand from
him the most detailed explana-
tion of transactions which took
the same thing themselves. De-
bate was adjourned to last Tues-
day. When itvyresumed, the Gov-
ernment made it clear they were
not preparedsto accept it.

CONTRADICTION

There was one extraordinary
contradiction ;made by the Goy-
ernment spokesmen. The Minis-
ter of National Revenue, speal
ing firePand™ trying “to sweeten
the pill of his opposition to it,
said:

“Mr. Speaker . . . I am not
averse to a further limitation of
the powers to re-assess, having
regard to all the considerations

But the Minister of Finance,
speaking only ten minutes later,
said exactly the opposite. He
said:

RENEWAL

“We have always thought the
G years a reasonable length of
time . . . Six years is not in my
view too long generally ... un-
der present circumstances.”

That, unfortunately, is typi-
cal of the confusion and chaos
with which so much of its busi-
ness is being conducted by the
Government at present. How-
ever, they laid down the line,
and only one of their followers
deserted them in the vote. And
so the struggle on behalf of the
Canadian taxpayer will have to
be renewed next year.

Burned Out Family
Showered =

A miscellaneous shower was
held at the home of Mrs. Phil
Bourelle, June 15, in honor of
Mrs. George Dorrans and her
family, whose home and con-
tents was destroyed by fire re-
cently.

The numerous gifts were pre-
sented to Mrs. Dorrans in a min-
jature house standing on an
ironing board.

Mesdames M. Walker, H. Brown,
B. Simmons, A. Williams, L. Fet-
ters, H. Hockley, M. Leek, H.
Gurr, E. Gruhs, M. Von Hugo,
BE. MacLeod, T. MacDougall, M.
Trowse, G. Gardner, A. Racher,
A. Redford, A. Stober, B. Lowr:
G. Wyllie, L. Brigden, Y. Wal-
ters, H. Gibbons and J. Douglas.
Also the Misses Pat Goslin, Alice

Critchlow, Kathy and Hazel
Bourelle, Arlene and Sharon
Dorrans.

Of interest to the guests was
the pleasing talk given by Mrs.
Jill Douglas of Whale Town,
Cortez Island, B.C., of the his-
tory, in brief, of the Women’s
Institute as a world wide or-
ganization.

A FAREWELL SERVICE was
held in Horsefly Sunday, June
17 by the Rev. J. R. Colclough.
Rey. Colclough, who has minis-
tered in Horsefly for the past
six years, leaves shortly for
Burrayville.

The congregation enjoyed an
outdoor service followed by the
presentation of a travel alarm
clock to Rev. Colclough, and @
plaque to Mrs. Colclough. A pic-
nic lunch was enjoyed by those
present,

DAVID DE GROOT of the
British and Foreign Bible Soci-
ety gave a brief talk to church
attendants on Sunday. He out-
lined the beginning and the
many years of development of
the organization. The extensive-
ness of the work of this group
was impressed on the listeners
by a beautiful display of ma-
terials and bibles put out by the
workers of this society.

THE Department of Highways
has a bulldozer operator employ-
ed on the Black Creek road, do-
ing some. much needed work.
Grader operators have ‘also been
busy on the Beaver Valley road
and the Horsefly Lake road.

AMONG the new residents of
Horsefly are Mr. and Mrs. Barry
Williams and two sons, of Burn-
aby, B.C., who are in the pro-
cess of establishing a home for
themselves and are at present
staying at Barrett's Cabin Camp.
Also Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hatten,
formerly of Wells, who are build-
ing their new home in the Bar-
rett. subdivision overlooking
Harper's Lake.

MRS. JILL DOUGLAS of
Whale Town, Cortez Island, B.C.,
was the weekend guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Bud Gibbons. Mrs.
Douglas, who is the director of

public relations of Canada for
the Women’s Institute, accom-
panied Mrs. Gibbons back to

Horsefly from attending the In-
stitute convention held at Bridge
Lake recently, Mrs. Douglas is
also a_ profe: mal writer and
entertained several residents in
the school on the evening of
June 15, showing slides of her
various travels.

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DISTRICT H CONVENTION

Other officers include: vice-
president, C. J. Faessler,. Bridge
Lake; sécretary - treasurer, J-
Deane-Freeman, Bridge Lake.
Directors, T. E. Windt, Kersley;
A. McMillan, Lone Butte, and
Owen Arbogast, West Quesnel.
E. Greenlee of Canim Lake was
re-elected to the Advisory Board.

The 1957 convention will be
held at Kersley.

C. J. Faessler, president of
the Bridge Lake Farmers’ In-
stitute, welcomed the delegates
and visitors to Bridge Lake. He
expressed the hope that the 1956
convention would be both pleas-
ant and profitable.

In the absence of the former
president, who sent
resignation which
the retiring secretary, F: Vernon,
from West Quesnel,-J...W.Wyn-
stra was named chairman.

Mr. Greenlee, advisory board
member, submitted his annual
report in which he said that the
number of local Farmers Insti-
tutes on the active list had fallen
off in recent years in District H
by 50%. There are now 10 ac-
tive local Institutes in the dis-
trict. However, some of these,
including Bridge Lake and Kers-
ley, have continued to flourish
for 30 years or more.

Guest speakers were: L. W.
Johnson, Supt of Farmers Insti-
tutes, Victoria. Ron. Trues, Dis-
trict Agriculturist, Quesnel, and
Joe Walsh, District Agricultur-
ist, Williams Lake.

Mr. Johnson thought it was
time to. reorganize the Farmers

Horsefly Resident Named
Farmers Institutes President

Jack Wynstra of Horsefly was elected president
of District H Farmers’ Institutes at the annual meet-
ing of the organization at Bridge Lake last week.

stitutes right through to the Ad-
visory Board. Publicity for the
Institute movement, Mr. , John-
son believed, could be had by
reporting the organization’s ac-
tivities to the press and radio.
The local correspondent for The
Tribune: was recognized as the
publicity, channel for the organ-
ization.

The financial report showed
cash in the bank of more than
$200.00.

A glowing tribute was paid ~

to F. Vernon of West Quesnel,
who retired from the office of
District Secretary after many
years of faithful service. Mr.
Vernon was given a vote of

y| thanks from the floor of the con-

vention and a cheque fe:
“Mr. Vernon thanked the S{eS=———eeas

ing, saying that the vote of ap-
Preciation meant more to him
than the money. Mr. Vernon said
he would continue to work as
before in the interest of organ-
ized agricultur through his. lo-
cal Institute.

After the convention adjourn-
ed, the new board of directors
met to consider an agenda of
district executive meetings for
the coming year.

Delegates attending the con-
vention were: T. BE. Windt-from
Kersley. C. J. Faessler and Amos
Kalloch from Bridge Lake; N.
Sandberg and F. Leavitt from
Roe Lake. E. Greenlee and Mar-
tin Richards from Canim Lake;
Owen Arbogast from West Ques-

Institutes, time to revitalize the| Butte; J.
whole setup from the local In-|Horsefly.

nel; A. McMillan from Lone
W. Wynstra from

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