MOTOR TAXES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18242, 28 November 1924, Page 6

MOTOR TAXES.

RAISED IN. NEW SOUTH WALES. (yHOii. otra. own corebsposdext.) SYDNEY, November 19. ;. The Government, hopes to derive from taxation and .licenses under the new Motor Vehicles Tax Bill, now before the Legislative Assembly, about £600,000 a year,' : which will go to the Main Roads Board. Private motorears, it is understood, will pay a tax or between 30 an.d-40 per cent, higher than at present. It is" estimated that about £45,000 will be derived from doubling the present license fees, in the following cases:—Motor .cyclists, present fee, 2s 6d a year; motor-drivers, present feo 5s a year; conductors of motor vehicles present fee 5s a year. The fee for the transfer of the registration of a motoi vehicle will also be doubled. The highest -rate- to bo charged on any motor bus now in use within the State will' he about £6O, which will be reducible to about £4O, provided that the vehicle is fitted with pneumatic tyres. Some of the chief provisions of the Bill provide for the taxing of motor vehicles according to weight, and not according to horse-power; the abolition of certain preferential rates which now exist, including the cars of doctors, clergymen, those used for hire, and trade motor vehicles: and the taxing of motor buses according to weight. Motor vehicles of oyer fiive tons, previously exempted -under the old Act, are. to, be brought under the hew Act and taxed according to. weight. -In the case of motor-cars with pneumatic tyres, tho proposed : tax is 2s 9d n~r half cwf of total weight. Cars without pneumatic tvres are to be taxed at the rate of 3s 3d per half cwt of total weight.