NEW TAX MAY FORCE BRITISH CINEMAS TO CLOSE
(Rec. 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, August 12.
' The president of the Cinematograph Exhibitors’ Association, Mr B. T. Davis, stated that the new tax on films would mean the closing of British cinemas, unless new arrangements could be made. The association, after a meeting in London, decided to write to Mr Attlee, Sir Stafford Cripps and Dr Dalton, asking the Government to give some indication of its intention to negotiate with the American film companies, who have decided to stop supplying the British market. The letters will say that the saving in dollars would be negligible during the period the cinemas could continue showing films held in stock, and, when the supply ran out, the industry would automatically cease
contributing £43,000,000 annually in entertainments tax,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1947, Page 7
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131NEW TAX MAY FORCE BRITISH CINEMAS TO CLOSE Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1947, Page 7
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