THE PETROL TAX

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 19, 24 October 1944, Page 5

THE PETROL TAX

USE ON COUNTY ROADS

RECOMMENDATIONS ADOPTED

Recommendations by the Coun"ties Association in connection with -several angles of. local body finance were adopted at the conference of •delegates of ten county councils in 'Tauranga recently. The following proposals by the association found the favour of the meeting:— The whole of. the petrol less <lepartmental expenditure involved, Joe utilised for road improvement on county roads, on a basis of at least a pound for pound subsidy on expenditure on roads other than State .and main highways, this subsidy to be in lieu of the present inequitable and complicated subsidy on rates; increasing the allocation to (the. Main Highways Board by applying the remainder of the petrol tax to the board in order to carry out its normal function. The questions being discussed were as follows:—Whether the present method of, providing local body finance should remain? ; whether local body rates should continue to be levied on the land? ; taxing comes instead of levying local rates; provision of funds, by the, State for local government expenditure; effects of different systems of rating; universal systems of rating; derating. The chairman Mr J. L. Burnett '9 » of Whakatane mentioned that the petrol tax at present was 1/2 6d of which was for the. Highways Board and the"balance far the Con-/ .solidated Fund..