DUTY ON PRESENT-DAY VALUE
A CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT CHARGE CHALLENGED. By TcleeropJi-Presn Association. Ohrittchurch, May 2fi. The following telegram lias 'been sent bv Mr. L. M. Isitt, M.P., io tho Prime Slinistcr:—"A Christohurch ; merchant showed me to-day an invoice 'fa parcel of English goods landed on April 26. The price was £11 7s. Vhe Customs Department to charged duty on the pre-eont-<lav value. .€4l 7s. The merchant asks what possible justification the (iovurnmerit has in charging duty on the present-day value, ,£lO more tlvwi he paid, while ho is profited from putting his profit, on the present-day value. Jf it is profiteering to charge in the pre-sent-day value, is not the Government adding to the cost of living and profiteering when it is charging duty on i» value the producer does not recei.-o. the merchant docs not pay, and the Government, although charging duty on it, refuses-to recognise? If putting profit on the pre-font-day value is wrong, how can auuty on the'present-day value be right?"
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 207, 27 May 1920, Page 4
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164DUTY ON PRESENT-DAY VALUE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 207, 27 May 1920, Page 4
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