MOTOR TIRES

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 35, 10 August 1921, Page 9

MOTOR TIRES

REDUCED PRICES AND PROPOSED DUTY.

AdvioS Baa been raserved fwan America by a sale-agency imparting house of a drop of 25 per cent, in the price list of aU motor tiiea and! other rubber goods manufactured by the firm. Business is reported ay exceedingly slow in the motor tire business in New Zealand Some motor-car users aaO much exercised ■ over the proposal fo help finance arterial roads by collecting a special dluty on tires, if rubber tiros are 1 contemplated! by the Government The view seems to be not that a tax on tires would be unfair —making the man who used tires most pay most; the result of such tax would be to increase their, price, but beyond tlra amount that would accrue to the Government by way of! special*, duty. There is no duty at present; 1" "but, assuming that a dyity of 10 per cent, were levied on a set of tires, the cumulative effect of the diuty would be borne by the consumer or user. The merchant and retailer most assess tfyanf percentage of profit on the respective costs of the goods, which, in botih instances, would be basedi on the dittypaid article. The Government would receive the duty, but by reason of Ws aidiclition to the invoiced cost of the article, both merchant and 1 retailer would have to materially increase the amiouafc if not