THE AMUSEMENTS TAX

Taranaki Daily News, 29 August 1930, Page 5

THE AMUSEMENTS TAX

CLUB PAYS EXTRA PENNY. Although the amusements tax increase is now in operation, patrons of the Taranaki Hunt Club’s race meeting, at New Plymouth' tomorrow, will not have to dig any deeper into their pockets at the gate—at least. The admission charges will not bo subject to any alteration, the chib itself shouldering the extra burden in accordance with the policy adopted by the majority of clubs. In adopting this procedure, even at a heavy east, clubs are wise, inasmuch as the mere hunt for add pence at the racecourse gates would tend, to irritate the majority of visitors, and the result would probably make itself evident in the totalisator receipts. The increased dividend and investment taxes will not thrust themselves readily upon the public notice. If investors could actually see a cool 3s 4Jd deducted from every pound that passes through the investment windows, they would, probably stop and deduce the fact that the only winner is the Government, and a good winner at that, However, the figuring goes on away from the public view, and the process is one of painless extraction, the only one to feel the hurt being the racing club, which has to collect the tax and pay it to the Government.