Tax Burden on Beer.
The pint of beer carries an excise tax of 4’d, according to Mr. O. Phillips. chairman of Tooth and Co. Ltd. br< v ers. Sydney. He informed shareholders at the recent annual that within the company’s last year there had been two increases in ritilx on beer, one of Off in November, 191" and one of 3d in the late Budget. ThU brought the total duty to 3s a gallon, twelve times what it was in December. 1914 Thus, on every pint of bcei consumed over the bar counter the Government collected 4id in excise. Fruit Acid Substitutes. Owing to the difficulty of obtaining adequate supplies of citric and tartaric acids, an amending regulation has been made under the Sale of Food and Drugs A(t, providing as a temporary measure that wherever the existing regulations permit either acid to be used in the preparation of any food, it may hp replaced to the extent of not more than 50 pct cent, with an equivalent quantity of lactic or phosphoric acid.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 293, 12 December 1941, Page 4
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174Tax Burden on Beer. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 293, 12 December 1941, Page 4
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