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Menzies, Robert

Period of Service: 19/12/1949 - 26/01/1966
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Release Date:
08/09/1959
Release Type:
Media Release
Transcript ID:
100
Document:
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  • Menzies, Sir Robert Gordon
PM 33/1959 - DENIAL ON TAXATION APPOINTMENT STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER

P. M. No, 3311299
DENIAL ON TAXATION APPOINTMENT STATEMENT
BY THE PRIME MINISTER
The Prime Minister today commented upon a
._-port which appeared in some newspapers last week to
t'. e effect that the Government had appointed Sir Alexander
Fitzgerald as Chairman of a Committee of Inquiry
into Commonwealth taxation laws.
Mr. Menzies said that no such appoiLntment had
been made and that the Commonw~ ealth had not yet considered
the composition of the taxation enquiry committee.
The Government was looking at the terms of reference
for the committee,.
Mel bourne,
8th Septe) nber, 1959.

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