BUDGET DEBATE.
LABOUR’S CRITICISM. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 2 p.m. to-day. LONDON, April 27.. In the House of Commons, Mr Philip Snowden, during the Budget debate, said that the betting tax was imposed in the face of expert opinion that collusion between the backer and the bookmaker was very easy, and both were interested in the evasion.. Mr Churchill was at the end of his resources when he degraded revenue by a tax on one of the greatest of presentday evils. The last time it was the rich man’s Budget, and he could now eay that it was a Budget of th© profligate and bankrupt. Sir John Simon wished it clearly Understood l that any future Ministry could sweep away the whole protective system recently created. ' The Hon. E. Harmsworth congratulated Mr Churchill on his preferential proposals, and hoped a future Budget would include some steps in the direction of a real trading agreement between the different Dominions and the Mother Country.—A. and N.Z. Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 April 1926, Page 11
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