“IMPOST ON WORKER”
— NEW AMUSEMENT TAX. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 25. Mr Henry Hayward, the theatre director, said: ‘‘lt is not a case of a swollen head with the Government, but swollen overhead.” The amusement tax, he added, was being imposed at a time when business was staggering under the effects of a “talkie” revolution. The tax on lowerpriced tickets was a direct impost on the worker. If Parliament insisted on a higher grade of tax on the c< talkies’ it. should insist that it be not passed on to the exhibitor; if it were passed on many of the smaller businesses would be forced to close.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 28 July 1930, Page 7
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