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e 9 e o e es ) C s t¥ ns s e § 3 8 & -- _ _ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1921.. _ - * * n ® e --~.--. * . ..-- TORONTO HIT HARD? _ ~ ' T OF IT? WHO MADE TORONTO! ' l ies tercess y zen t Sam Clarke Energetically y Flays Metropolis Which | Hon. Peter Needs Man ® * PR "For Years Has Drained| To Slgfl His Cheques | Resources and Manhood| nsl + 9 .i | rda of Province" in Support.i In the Legislature yesterday * * Budget \| Provincial Treasurer Smith /in-- 7 ing Smith Budge l troduced a bill which provides »_ ennssssuninmnnttiesimes || for the appointment of an assist-- TAX RESOLUTIONS || ant auditor in his department. According to the terms of the I PASS LEGISLATURE easure the Assistant AAuditor || | measu | ,' nanee emmmtum ces will have the po to sign | _ Hon. Peter Smith yesterday secur--|| cheques in Ahe sence of the : ®oed the approval of the Legislature|| auditor. vate : in reapeet of two resolutions em--|" m es en e o--------i'-- bodying t! ipl f legislation t" Froronto, they say, pays three--| DU'].)I'I°. s mifl"p l ce * h |fifths of the revenue of the Pro-- underlying the inauguration of the !\'in«:e. What of that?" he queried.| new schemes of taxation to which he |For years the city of Toronto had | alluded in presenting his Budget. 1:1rai(;m<lr tge ;'osogmes a']n'd ti]'e man -- * Tor nood of the Province. The Province H. H. Dewart, Southwest flontos 'of pntario had made Toronto, and vigorously protested against the dis-- that city should be ashamed to boast | 'cussio.x of the resolutions . Public of its wealth, ; # ini 'egarding the proposed tax-- "*Mr. Treasurer, if you can raise jupfimmn ga, '.9 ;;. :, p' p'l'--e" he $400,000 from this, go ahead," went| lfli!')" was now hbeing erysiailise@, 11© on Mr. Clarke. "No one is going to , | deciared, and consideration of the} * be hurt. If you can get $400,000| | resojutions, in his opinion, shoul}d by this tax, you will get $375,000 of ; \be deferred until members of the :taz,rgm inose who van well afford tu, | Legislature had had an opportunity p 4 o I | of familiarizing ihemselves with the Effect of Resolutions, ' | views of their constituents. + Details of the items covered by the | | . i s uks hne Treas-- two resolutions were as follows: | |__Premier Drury stated the Amendments of the Corporations{ | ury bills could not be intrqduced to Tax Act, as under: | | the House until the resolutions upm? (1) &A tax of one--tenth of one per | which they were | based had bee'l.. cent. on the reserve funds and un--| passed, and the Provincial Traasurer divided profits of banks; (2) an in--| then explained his notices of mo-- crease in the tax upon railways,| tion. based on mileage, from $2%5 to $40 | rainles Escane. per mile--aimed to put _ Ontario| .ll""" Compa I railways upon the same basis as re--| | :One <-- minor change from the gards taxation as those in Western | Budget was announced. The pro-- Provinces, and calculated to earn | | posed increase in the taxation _ ol $135,000 in additional revenue; (3) 'loan companies, from one to two per an increase in the rates of taxation' cent., would not go imf» effect, Hon. of telephone companies operating in | 'Mr. Smith stated, in view of repre-- Ontario from one--quarter of one 'sentations made to him b}' lht'-"i per cent. to one--half of one per companies. Increased taxation . of cent., giving $40,000 in additional : | telephone companies, -- exclusive o1 revenue; (4) a change in the|} co--operative systems and of -- rail-- method of taxation of companies ; way, steamship and Pullman com-- leasing, hiring or operating sleeping, | panies, was announced, as forecast parlor or dining cars to a faft rate in the Budget, as was also the tax on all such of $10,000 per annum: on the transfers of property.. (5) a tax of one--tenth of one per This latter item met with the cent. on the paid--up capital of lcritic!sm of several members of ffies navigation -- companies (steamboat Seq res in companies--to be in. accord with |Oppofmnuon, ur.l)an representativ e's * { tax now levied in Quebec and to be Ipa.ru('ular taking the ground that it | paid, annually, by or on the firsi 'would work a hardship upon labor-- ; day of July. \ers and workingmen who were tl',\'ingi In addition, the levying of a tax 'to secure homes of their own. ; of one--fifth of one per cent. of the Hon. Walter Rollo saiid that the! & purchase money, to be paid by the ; | workingmen _ of Oprtario were not| party registering same upon every : lseeking to evade their share of tax--| transfer of ownership of property . ation; all they wished was a "square} in Ontario. This tax will come into | ldeal." _ As the representative of effect only when the act is c-nfnrced.l Labor in the Cabinet, he did not seo' «ennnnnnmenamemmnneeneem mm onmmmmmmmmmemmmm mm cmmmmmmemmmme any valid objeciion to the terms of | the measure. | This view was reiterated by Karl: f : Homuth, Labor member for South | :Waterloo, who resented the impli-- lca!ion that the so--called "working classes" were desirous of special consideration in respect of the trans-- fers of property. Two Leaders----One Policy. Hon. Howard Ferguson and Mr. Dewart approved the principle of s the property tax, the latter emphasiz-- ~ s ing the fact that, should the tax be-- e come effective, the city of Toronto alone would pay 'half or more of the lotal collectatble from the entire Pro-- ; / vince. '"'I have never known of an after-- t noon when there was shown on this C 3 side of the House so much concern for the workingman,'"' said Sam Clarke, ironically. The member for West Northumberland twitted the | Leader of his group, Mr. Dewart, | over his attitude regarding the pro-- | posed tax. Why should there be' 3 |such a plea for Toronto? he asked. ; ym