TAX CONCESSION GIVEN TO BRITISH HOUSEWIVES
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■(Special Correspondent.) LONDON, June 19. British housewives have been given a tax conccssion by Mr. Dalton ( Chancellor of the Exchequer) valued at between £8,000,000 and £10,000,000 He has reversed his Bmlget decision to apply the 66 2-8 per cent. purchase ta> on domestic appliances. Though sonn will continue so taxed things like gas and electrie cookers, electric kettles electric irons, boiling rings, hot plates, grillers and wash boilers j a're to be cxempt. ' ' - - - >: . . . . Tliese. eoncessions' lrav.e''' bee:n gf-aftted at't.er considera-lile pressure - w'as a^p'lied 1> V the Labour .Uartyt ,,R.efnnds niay be claimed by "anybody who bouglit these articles since April 15, the date of the Budget. Mr. Dalton also agreed to halve the tax on sports gear.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 June 1947, Page 7
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128TAX CONCESSION GIVEN TO BRITISH HOUSEWIVES Chronicle (Levin), 20 June 1947, Page 7
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