MOTOR SPIRITS TAX.
NO REFUND FOR ROAD WORKS
WELLINGTON, Sept. 27.
“There is little likelihood of any amendment being introduced in Parliament this session to the Motor Spirits Taxation Act in the direction of providing for a refund of the tax on motor spirits used in road and street construction and maintenance,” says Hon. C. E. Macmillan, acting-Mimster of Public Works, in replying to a remit from the Counties’ Association on the subject. “The actual amount of money involved in the proposal must be very small and hardly such as to justify fresh legislation. I may say that when the Act was first being drawn up the question of making the tax universal, with no exemptions, was very seriously considered, and I doubt whether the benefits to the restricted number of taxpayers who have obtained the refunds nave justified the expense so incurred by the Government.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 255, 27 September 1932, Page 10
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