SALES TAX INCREASE
Second Senator Rebels (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) CANBERRA, December 2. The Government yesterday received a setback when a Government Senator “announced” he would vote against the Government’s Bill to increase the sales tax on motor vehicles from 30 per cent to 40 per cent. The legislation, which has passed the House of Representatives, was before the Senate yesterday. Yesterday, Senator Reginald Wright (Liberal, Tasmania) announced in the Senate that he would vote against the bill, and the Government's chances of having it passed depends on another “rebel” Government Senator who also has said he will vote against the "bill.
If the two Government Senators vote against the bill, and the combined Opposition parties also vote against it in full strength, the result will be a 30all vote which will negate the bill.
At a party meeting recently, the Prime Minister (Mr Menzies) was reported to have warned the rebels that a double dissolution and a general election could be the result of a defeat on sales tax legislation.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29378, 3 December 1960, Page 15
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