Farmers oppose fuel tax
Fuel tax paid .by .farmers on petrol and diesel used oh farms should be..: abolished,North Canterbury... Federated Farmers’ agriculture section executive decided yesterday.
..After considering a remit from : the JFerriside - branch calling for the. Government to pay a refund on fuel tax to farmers, the executive decided to ask Dominion Federated Farmers to make representation to the Government.
Mr P. Phillips said the tax was first imposed in 1971. About 0.66 c a litre was paid on petrol and 0.33 c on a litre of diesel. This money was disr.’ utcl to local authorities for use on road maintenance.
Mr C. R. Bailey said the farmer' was hit in three .different ways by road taxes. Transport firms passed increases in road tax directly to the farmer, the farmer paid tax on fuel for..his car and other road-going, vehicles, and the farmer also paid tax on the fuel used in tractors and other vehicles which often did not use roads.
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