Tax-allocation upset
Hospital boards should get more money from alcohol and tobacco tax,. Mr T. M. McGuigan yesterday told the North Canterbury Hospital Board's finance committee. He said that figures supplied to the board by the Department of Health showed that only 27 per cent of money raised by the tax was allocated to hospital boards. The Government's Budget a in 1976 gave the boards ; "every justification” to believe that all the money raised by the tax would go to them, he said.
"Hospital boards should be extremely disappointed that less than one-third of the money has been allocated to them,” said Mr McGuigan. He said that some of the figures supplied at the board's request were "hard to follow." but that if the figures were correct the boards had "been done a very dirty deal.” ? The committee decided to investigate the matter further before taking it up with the Minister of Health (Mr Gair).
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