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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) (about)
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Cite: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1659130
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BACHELOR TAX.
CATHOLIC FEDERATION'S VIEW.
At a meeting of the State council of the Australian Catholic Federation, held on Wednesday, the following resolution was passed:-
"That the Australian Catholic Federation re- cords its emphatic protest against the Common- wealth Bachelor Tax, in so far as the same applies to Catholic priests and religious, because the tax, in their case, is distinctly a penal im- position, in that it taxes individuals who, owing to their vow of celibacy imposed by their Catholic religious principles, are made inescapable suffer-
ers from the tax."