TAXES AT HOME.
LONDON, June S. "My position as Chancellor of the Exchequer has not been improved in consequence of recent events in Britain," was Mr. Winston Churchill's signifioant remark in the House of Commons in the committee stage of the Finance Bill. The House at the time was discussing an Opposition amendment to reduce the tea duty. Mr. Churchill said he was more inclined to search in the near future for additional sources of taxation than to abandon any on which the Budget was ha lamed. Hi- denied a Labour charge that the Government tended to increase indirect taxation. The luxury taxes were included in the total of indirect taxation and were raised almost exclusively from luxuries and from rich people. " The amendment was defeated by 241 ■ votes to 105.—(Renter.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 135, 9 June 1926, Page 7
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