MOTOR TAXATION

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12075, 28 February 1925, Page 14

MOTOR TAXATION

IN ENGLAND AND NEW ZEALAND. The question as to the form motor -taxation should take is as warmly debated as ever in all parts of the Dominion, and varying are the proposals made to solve the problem. In England, and in some at. least of the Australian States, the license feels for motors are fixed on horse power, based on the product of the multiplication of the horse power of the motor vehicle by the weight unladen. In respect of that method of motor taxation, information obtainable goes to show that there is much opposition in the Dominion to the levying of the license fee .on any system based on horse power. One of the principal opponents of that tax was the New ■Zealand Farmers’ Union, Auckland, which body had stated that it was pledged to resist to the, last any attempt madei by, certain interests to bring about the 'taxation of motor ve-' hides on a horse-power basis. It seem:that in the Motor Vehicles Bdl of 1914, the licenses were based ;* cording to the horse power of a. vehicle, but, on opposition being raised in various quarters to that proposal, it was dropped by the authorities.