DECLARED INVALID.
AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER TAX. HIGH COURT’S DECISION. (Received Thursday. 8.40 p.m.). SYDNEY, March 3. The High Court unanimously decided that the Act imposing a half-penny tax on the sale of newspapers, levied by the New South Wales Government, is unconstitutional and the tax was declared to he invalid. The newspapers concerned were awarded costs, estimated to be in the vicinity of £5OO. The Court held that the tax constituted excise duty, therefore it came within the province of the Commonwealth Government.
The afternoon newspapers to-day reverted to the former price of one penny per copy. Some papers have been issuing half-penny 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.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 4 March 1927, Page 5
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