To Chain “Chains”
MINISTER NON-COMMITTAL
United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.
SYDNEY, March 5. A turnover tax ranging from 2J' to 10 per cent., according to the number of businesses conducted by one concern, was suggested to,the Federal' Government by the Commonwealth Storekeepers’ and Traders’ Association, as a means of.combating the development of chain stores.
The Assistant Treasurer, Mr. Casey, said it had never been tho practice of Governments in Australia to use taxation as a discriminatory weapon to adjust matters of business and economics, but he promised to place tbc request before .the Government
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 55, 7 March 1935, Page 9
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