MOTOR TAXATION
PETROL LEVY URGED. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTGHURGH, last night. Tho South Island Progress League conference decided to-day to request the'Government that the tyre tax and annual motor car tax bo abolished and a tax on motor spirit be imposed. The Ihover of tho remit, Mr. S. B. M'aedonald (Otago) said the present road tax and tyre, tax were inequitable, especially to the farmer, who used the car only occasionally,, and, therefore, got little value for. tho road tax. ,In the same, way,-lift tyres never wore out, but rotted off; A petrol tax of 3d. a gallon would, return £580,220 per annum, whereas, last year, the tyre fax had yielded £1.40,534, and the motor car trtx £228,000. In a subsequent discussion, it was suggested that a means of granting exemptions to fishermen using motor launches and farmers using tractors and milking plants and others using petrol for stationary power plants should be arranged. The remit was carried.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16373, 22 June 1927, Page 3
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