Sales tax on books for young
Sir,—With an. estimated 50,000 illiterate people in New Zealand the Government cannot afford to put sales tax on books for the young, from preschool to adolescent. Much is being said and done about both the difficulties some children have in learning to read, and the dire consequences of failure — discouragement, distress, humiliation, depression, and warped personality often
leading to crime. Failure usually begins in infancy. So does success, when tinies learn to enjoy their own picture and story books at mother’s knee. Are these to be taxed out of reach? Reading should be strongly encouraged in the home by making available to the child books which he can read with ease and enjoyment. Some parents buy books; some use libraries or do both. But whatever the choice sales tax will have a devastating effect on the availability of books. — Yours, etc., OLIVE HARVEY. Wanganui, June 25, 1982.
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