Sales tax ‘should go’
PA Wellington ( The Government should; consider Budgetary removal; of the “savage sales tax” on caravans and boats, the Labour member for Yaldhurst (Mr M. A. Connelly) has told Parliament. Last month the Government imposed 20 per cent sales tax on commerciallybuilt caravans and boats and, Mr Connelly said. This had had a “harsh impact” on era-
ployment in provincial towns and cities. In addition, potential for export was dependent on a strong domestic market for boats and caravans. In a notice of motion, Mr Connelly said that the Government did not have a man date to make caravan and boat manufacturers “victims of their growing tendency to become accident prone in taxation matters.”
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Press, 18 June 1979, Page 10
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