High Tax In Britain

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31943, 21 March 1969, Page 9

High Tax In Britain

The taxation imposed on, British road-users has doubled since 1964, and now brings in £1585m a year, a British member of Parliament, Sir Gerald Nabarro, said recently. In the last five years, the cost of petrol in Britain had, because of increased taxation, risen from 4s 4d a gallon to 6s a gallon, the cost of licensing a car had risen' from £l5 a year to £25 a year (and was to be increased to £4O a year), and purchase tax on new cars had been increased from 25 per cent to nearly 37 per cent, he said.

: i ; Sniffle Risk I The season of sniffles, colds and misery will soon be/ on us again. Have you ever noticed what your driving ' is like when you have a cold? If you are like me, and from what I observe, like many I others, you are i through streaming eyes be- i tween sneezes, and are feeling impatient. You are likely to be discourteous, irritable, . and perhaps a bit of a men- ' ace. This makes me wonder . if people with colds are not !