DEAR FOODSTUFFS
EXCESSIVE TAXATIONCAMPAIGN INAUGURATED HI ENGLAND. TEA AND SUGAR DUTIES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N-Z. Cable Association. (Received April 27, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 27. In consequence of the distress caused -by the high taxation of foodstuffs, many members of the House of Commons are inaugurating a campaign to reduce taxation. A prominent Labour member of” the House of Commons indicates that his party will go further, and fight for the total abolition of imposts on foodstuffs, notably tea and sugar duties. Lobbyists are of the opinion that ! the Government will not dare to reduce income {ax without simultaneously taking threepence off tea and a penny off sugar, which, with a shilling off the income tax, would cost 000,000.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11195, 28 April 1922, Page 8
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