HORSE-POWER TAX
NOT CONSIDERED A PREVALENT RUMOUR Concern has beon expressed in motoring circles in the past few days at a widely-circulated rumqur that t'ue Government was proposing, as one of the forthcoming general taxation proposals to assist'in meeting the Budget deficiency, to institute a new measure of motor taxation in the form of a tax on horse power. Prom inquiries made by a "Post" reporter in official circles yesterday _ afternoon, it was gathered that the idea has not been considered by Cabinet as a means of aiding revenue. "Nothing has been done yet in that direction," was the reply of the Prime Minister (the Eight Hon. G. W. Forbes). "Wo want first of all to see how wo get on with our proposals for economy before we know what provision will be required in the way of taxation." He said that the Government aimed to make up £850,000 from taxation, and he could only say at present that it would come from direct and indirect sources.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 67, 20 March 1931, Page 8
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167HORSE-POWER TAX Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 67, 20 March 1931, Page 8
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