TAX ON NEWSPAPERS
HELD TO BE INVALID. DECISION OF HIGH COURT. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, March 3. (Received March 3, at 9.30 p.m.) The High Court unanimously decided that the Act of imposing a halfpenny tax on the sale of newspapers by the New South Wales Government was unconstitutional, and the tax was declared to be invalid. The newspapers concerned were awarded costs, which are estimated to be in the vicinity of £SOO. The court held that the tax constituted an excise duty, and therefore it came within the province of the Commonwealth Government. The afternoon newspapers to-day reverted to the former price of a penny per copy. Some of the papers have been issuing halfpenny coupons with each issue since the tax was imposed, and when the legal difficulties are overcome these will be redeemed. Mr Lang declined to comment on the decision.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20039, 4 March 1927, Page 9
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