TAXATION AND ROADS
| FARMERS’ UNION POLICY. \ SEVERAL PLANKS ADOPTED. PRINCIPLES AFFIRMED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. The polloy of the Farmers’ Union was discussed by the conference today and a number of planks were adopted. General taxation, motor taxation and road finance were considered. With regard to taxation a plank provides that direct taxation should replace indirect as far as possible and be levied on personal income and so graduated that the burden falls on those best able to bear It, that the customs tax be for revenue only and be confined mainly to luxuries and that where assistance and encouragement of local industry are necessary it be given in the form of subsidies. With rogard to roads the principle laid down is that the whole cost and maintenance, including interest and principal of loans, fall on the road users.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20247, 16 July 1937, Page 9
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