CUSTOMS ANOMALIES.
The 10 per cent duty on cutlery, " except tools of trade," ia creating some I awkward problems in the Victorian ! Customs department. The other week some batcher kniyee, imported by a restaurant keeper, were sought to be taxed as cutlery, but an appeal was made to the Minister against the proposed imposition on the ; ground that the restaurant-keepers used | these kniveß for trade purposes as well as i the butchers. The 'appeal was allowed. ! But now shears of a certain kind, which j were to be exempted from duty for the | benefit of the shearers, are claimed to be i admitted free when imported by tailors, and it iB within the bounds of possibility that the operation of the duty and the exemption may throw the eale of razors and scissors out of the bands of ironmongers into those of the barbers and dressmakers, who may claim to import or ! indent) such articles of cutlery as "tools of ' trade." So many claims for exemption are possible that eventually, it is thought, the only things to which the tax applies will be the dinner knife and fork.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7427, 23 November 1892, Page 4
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CUSTOMS ANOMALIES.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 7427, 23 November 1892, Page 4
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