TAX ON MOTOR BODIES
1 A-deputation from the National Yehicular Trades Industrial Union of Employers waited on the Minister , of Finance (Sir Joseph Ward) yesterday; Tho deputation was not open to the Press. It was pointed out that largely owing to the exit of horse-drawn vehicles, the coachbuilding firms relied on the motor-body trade, and that even with 20 per cent.—the original tariff— it was a difficult-matter to : struggle lalong. Under the new '-revision: of 10 per cent.- their trade would be detrimentally aft'ected, and it might bo impossible for them. to carry on'. What the deputation wanted, was a' fixed price on bodies, or an additional 10 per cent, on the revised tariff on bodies. ■ Sir Joseph Ward promised to give th© deputation's representations careful consideration. He pointed'out that it'was Hot a revision of tho : tariff that had beon made in the Budget, but a war tax, as money had to be found to carry on the war.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2557, 3 September 1915, Page 6
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159TAX ON MOTOR BODIES Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2557, 3 September 1915, Page 6
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