“Tax On Development”
(Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.)
LONDON, March 8. A complaint by a parentteacher association in Birmingham over a new 10 per cent purchase tax on schoolgirls’ dresses has been referred to the President of the Board of Trade, Mr Douglas Jay. Only dresses with bust measurements of up to 32 Inches are exempt from tax. The secretary of the association, Mrs Joyce White, of Hall Green, says: “This means that there i s an extra six shillings on a £3 dress. Every-
one knows that girls are maturing more quickly nowadays. “I have two daughters, aged 14 and 16, who attend school, and I have never bought a 32-inch-bust uniform for either of them, not even when they were 11.” A customs and excise spokesman says the regulations had to start somewhere. “I would have thought that when girls need dresses with bust measurements of more than 32 inches they are women.”
Mr John England, a member of the National Union of Teachers’ executive says:! "This situation is ludicrous.! It is nothing but a tax on 1 development.”
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31004, 9 March 1966, Page 2
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