MOTOR TAXATION
BIG INCREASE IN BRITAIN FEARED. Aik. and N.Z. Assn and Sun Cable.) (Received April 20 at 8.45 p.m.) LONDON, April 20. Excitement prevails in motoring cir (des owing to a report that Air Chairchill (O'haneellor of the Exchequer) intends to impose a duty of sixpence per gallon on petrol, leaving the present tax of one pound per horse power un-eh.-ingod. Motorists have been hoping that th • power tax would be reduced to ten shillings, and thev did not suspect the ]»ossibility of a spirit tax. which, it is stated, the Chancellor of th" Exchequer has requested, to finance an ambitious rating relief scheme.
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Grey River Argus, 21 April 1928, Page 5
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105MOTOR TAXATION Grey River Argus, 21 April 1928, Page 5
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