MOTOR TAXATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 176, 25 June 1938, Page 11

MOTOR TAXATION.

EXPENDITURE ANALYSED. ENLIGHTENING FIGURES. Per -Press Association. ASHBURTON, June 24. At a pon'erence of bodies interested in road paving, held to-day, an advance copy of the report of Professor Tocker on motor taxation, to be presented at the conference in Christchurch on July 6, was distributed. Professor Tocker showed that the distribution of taxation on • motor spirit in 1936-7 was as follows: Consolidated Fund (4(d per gallon), £1,524,459; local authorities, £147,647; Main Highways Fund, £1,697,942; total for highway purposes (6d per gallon), £1,845,489; total motor spirits tax yield (net), £3,370,048. The grand total of all motor taxation for 1936-7 was £5,384:,019, as follows : Customs duties on motor vehicles and parts, £985,992; tyre tax, £134,894; motor spirits tax (net), £3,370,048; registration fees, etc, £493,626; heavy traffic fees. £268,000; drivers’ licenses, £7200; mileage, etc., £4159. 07 this only £2,756,375 was spent on highways purposes, £2,581,644 going to the Consolidated Fund and being spent on the Government’s general purposes. The proceeds of the total motor taxation were spent as follows: Main Highways Act. £2,333,750 ; boroughs, £154,625; local bodies (heavy traffic fee). £268,000: total for highway nurposes, £2,756,375; Consolidated Fund for general purposes, £2,591,644. It is suggested that the Christchurch conference will urge that the whole of the net proceeds of motor spirit taxation, including the 4}d per gallon now devoted to the general purposes of the Government, be transferred to fhn Main Highways Account .lid expended for highway purposes.