DUTY ON PETROL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 287, 15 September 1933, Page 2

DUTY ON PETROL

HEAVY TAXES ON MOTORISTS. THE FIGURES FOR LAST YEAR. to the "Guardian.") CrTRISTCHURCH, This Day. A total of £2,652,177 was paid by motorists of the Dominion for the year ended March 31, 1933, as taxation under legislation affecting motorists, according to a letter from the North Island Motor Union read at a meeting of the executive committee o'f the South Island Motor Union last night. Particulars of the taxation were as follow: Customs duties (vehicles and parts) 146,059

Tyre tax 64,17: Motor spirits, at 6d (Highways) ... • 1,245,614 Motor spirits at 4d (Consolidated Fund) ... 536,024 Surtax on petrol (Consolidated Fund) 96,094 Fees under Motor Vehicles Act ... ... ... 352,561 Heavy traffic fees 165,000 Drivers' licenses 55,000 Fees under Transport Act (commercial vehicles licenses) _ 2,648 Total £2,652,177

"If these figures are quoted at your annual meeting or disseminated among your members in any other way," the letter said, "it will assist us in directing public opinion to the punishing nature of the class taxation now carried by the motorist." "It is a colossal amount," remarked Mr J. S. Hawkes.