TAXING HOUSING
Sir, —A letter in your correspondence column regarding taxes on building materials contains a very practical suggestion. If effect were given to it the Government would be able to point to a genuine attempt to help with the problem of housing. At present those who have no option but to remain tenants all their lives may join the lengthening queue for State houses, but only.those at the head have much chance of getting anywhere to live. Those with a good deal of capital may have homes built for them, but the man tvith £300 or £400, apart from what he needs for furnishing, has Buckley's chance of getting a house built. If the Government is genuinely interested in helping those Avho wish to own their own homes it Avill do what it can to reduce the difference between the two-thirds of value advanced by a lending institution and the total cost required by the simple expedient of remitting sales tax on goods sold to builders for building purposes. Building costs have not been effectively stabilised: there is actually a case for subsidy of the home builder. Sales tax on building materials at a time Avhen the Government professes to be doing AA'hat it can to alleviate the housing position is not only indefensible—it is inconsistent.—l am. etc., SECTION OWNER.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1944, Page 4
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221TAXING HOUSING Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1944, Page 4
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