THE SALES TAX
* ABOLITION SOUGHT BY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ;>«ESS ASSOCIATION ULEGEAII.) DUNEDIN, March 19. At a meeting of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce to-night the following motion was carried: "This chamber uic.es that the Associated Chamber continue its efforts to bring about the abolition of the sales tax on the grounds: '•Hi That the tax is, unjust and unfair in its incidence. "'2l That it actually represents a tax to the consumer on many lines of approximately 9 to 15 per cent., not 3 per cent. "'3l That the imposition of tne tax i; still further drying up the spending power of the community, and that there is a necessity that the tax should, ew far as possible, be obviated by economy in Government expenditure."
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21118, 20 March 1934, Page 8
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