Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tuesday 12 December 1950, page 7
Wool tax
stands
until test
j Sydney, Monday
Two Victorian woolgrowers today failed to obtain from the High Court an order restrain-ing the Commonwealth from collecting income tax in advance from wool cheques.
The woolgrowers are Messrs. Desmond Carty Moore and Thomas Anthony Darcy, Aus-tralian Primary Troducers' Union vice-presidents.
[Under a new law, brokers arc to pay one-fifth of all wool cheques to the Common-wealth in payment of income tax when assessed.]
Moore and Anthony sought an injunction restraining the Taxation Commissioner from implementing- the legislation pending a High Court chal-lenge of its validity.
Sir John Latham, Chief Justice, adjourned the hearing to enable the parties to
confer.
The Government would re-turn to woolgrowcrs collections under its 20% wool sales de-duction legislation if the High Court ruled that the legisla-tion was invalid, Mr. Fadden, Treasurer, said in Canberra last night.
Mr. Fadden added thal he understood that this was ac-ceptable to the plaintiffs, and that the case would probably be heard in February.