MOTOR TAXATION AT HOME
POSSIBLE CHANGE OF FORM. (British Official Wireleao.) , 5 RUGBY, Oct, 22. During his visit to t-hr* motor slioav yesterday the Prime Minister, Mr Ramsay * MacDonald, discussed Avith leading manufacturers the handicap Avhich industry suffered OAving to the form of taxation levied on cars.
The present method is to base taxation on horse-poAver and, although as the result small-poAver cars have been brought to a high pitch of perfection, it has been suggested that it discourages the manufacture of big-engined cars such as are required by the Dominions and foreign markets, Avhere taxation is not based on horse-power. The Prime Minister’s replies to the leaders of British industry are taken in some quarters to mean that a modification or the abolition of the present form of taxation and the substitution of a petrol tax is being considered.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 24 October 1930, Page 5
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