BOOKMAKERS CONCERNED
(Received September 3, 12.30 p.m.) : SYDNEY, This Day. A deputation of bookmakers told the Premier (the Hon. B. S. B. Stevens) that excessive- taxation .on facing was forcing many bookmakers out of business and others were being compelled to resort to unlawful devices to evade taxation. The deputation added that fewer bookmakers were now operating than 'in the worst year of the depression. Mr. Stevens, replying, inferred that a reduction of the betting turnover tax from L per cent, to .J per cent, would probably be made before the spring carnival. * j
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 56, 3 September 1937, Page 11
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