BUDGET DEBATE.
LAND TAXES. DO THEY FALL ON THE SMALL MAN? " CLUB CHARGES. (DI TEMKIUAPH—rKESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) (Rec. May 12, 11.30 p.m.) London, May 12. There was a long and technical discussion in the House of Commons on the duty on foreign beer (which has been fixed at Is. per 36 gallons), club licenses, and tlie land values duties. . . .. . 1 Mr. Pretyman (Unionist) enumerated eight heavy taxes that aro borne by the land, and emphasised the injustice of adding four when incomcs derivable from land are falling. The real burden, he said, fell not. on the great landowners, but on the owners of small properties'who did not possess other resources.. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Lloyd-George, accepted Unionist suggestions, and changed the duty in the ease of clubsfrom threepence per' pound on liquor! 'sold to sixpence per pound upon liquor purchased.. Mr. A. B. Markham (Liberal) accused the Government of preventing tlie House of Commons from raising the poundage owing to.,tho Government's fear of the enormous political influence of clubs. Several members advooated a poundage equal to that in tie case of licenses of pub-lic-houses.,! ...
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 506, 13 May 1909, Page 7
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186BUDGET DEBATE. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 506, 13 May 1909, Page 7
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