LICENSE DUTY.
OBJECTION TO ANNUAL VALUE BASIS, LONDON WOULD SUFFER. (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright) • <Rcc. Juno 28, 920 p.m.) • ' London, Juno 28. A meeting in London of Liberal members of tho House of Commons declared that tho levying of tho license duty on tho basis of annual valuo puts London licenses at a great disadvantage compared with tho rest of the country. The meeting expressed tho behef that the publicans preferred to pay sixpence in. tho pound upon tho valuo of hquor consumed. . i , As tho Bill now stands, London would ■contribute:.,'3pi!per;'!'eent. ; ' , --'.of ih'e -yield.-.'of;: li : .c«nse:'duty-'tt^ ''Lonckra';ooritaiw : .only^ J oncTten'th'.of .thopopu': Nation;' ~':.'aV ■''■.'i i r t - ■:• \ : ' \ >;.- ■','.': •■■ W ''■■ '■'
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 546, 29 June 1909, Page 5
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108LICENSE DUTY. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 546, 29 June 1909, Page 5
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