TAXING AMUSEMENTS.
THE VICTORIAN BILL. Further information with regard to the Charities B&l, proposed by the Victorian • Government, "snows tliat tlie proposed sources of revenue include,, m additions to a tax on amusements, on impost of 5 per cent, on the gross revenue of cities, towns, and boraugnSj and 2£ per cent, on )^. tliat of shires. . ' It is proposed to put a tax of £2 per annum on motor cars, 2g 6d on bicycles, and a*, cliargc not yet fixed on carriages not used for trading purposes. Tickets giving admission to theatres, sports meetings, and other amusements wMI be subject, to a tax ranging from £d to 3d, acWding to Mio value. Those special toxos will, it is reckoned, bring m. a revenue of £70,000 for eliaritieSi - '.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10138, 26 August 1904, Page 2
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127TAXING AMUSEMENTS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10138, 26 August 1904, Page 2
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