A LEVY ON TYRES
OPPOSED BY TAXI OWNERS
WHAT THEY PROPOSE
TAX ON WEIGHT OF CARS
Consideration to the proposal of tin Now Zealand Automobile Union -that a lyro tax should be levied for the pur. pose of raising funds for the proper construction and maintenance of maini arterial ronds. was "Riven by delenates at yesterday's conference of the New Zealand Taxi Owners' Association.
•V remit, from Otapo was submitted in flie following terms: "That steps be taken to oppose the sußgest-ed tyre tax as being unjust to licensed taxi owners." Mr. |\ V. Stevens (Otngo) said that whiTe the prico of tyres was increasing tvery three months, taxi fares wo:e not Koiiis up. and if the' suggested tyre tux wer« imposed it would mean that taxi •iwners would lw runninß theiv cars at. a loss. The Motor Association had said Hiat a lyre tax would be fair to tlia taxi men, for the more tyros they used tiie morn' mileage they would be runuiuß, und thus tho more money would ihtjv he i-arniiiß, but "that argument was unfair localise many a tyre did not. rutt the guaranteed mileage. When this was pointed out to tho members of the Otiu'o Motor Club the reply was that taxi c»r« used the roads moro than anybody els#, and thnrcforo should pay their fair «ha»» of tho tax ■ . ,• The secretary (Mr. F. J. M Comlskv) ►aid that as far as he could poo th« Automobile X'nioii waited the inoliey raised bv the tax to be us«d not for ihe improvement of roads, but for lti» construction of new roads. A delegate: For thoir ceneral plcm.ure.
Renefitinn Country Roads. Mr. (!. Wood (Christchurcli).said that, what the taxi owners wanted to do vaa to show liow a t.vre tax would detrimentally affect their business, _fhey could not get away from the fact that they used the rouds as much as anybody, but it was 'the cfty roads that they used mostly, and city, roads would not benefit from a tyre tax. lh« roads that would benefit would be tbo mam arterial iwW which were used mostly ir tourists and the members of the Automobile Union, who, when they wentoa jaunts into the country, found, out i W the-country roads were liko and wanted them improved. In regard to the nr» tax it. had boen suggested that it should Uo collected in the form of an impoifc tax of 15 per cent. ad valorem. On pneumatic tyre#. The effect of that idea would he that by the time Rilor and the. retailer hod added Ihoir charge"* meet the tax, it would real v be a 50 per cent, tax instead of a 15 oer cent., and it vaa questionable whofcer taxi owners.would..be able jo P on such a hugo amount to their , Mr S. 3. Williams Unvwcarisill) Mild that a tyre fax would ho most, unfair because one could not bo certain how long ii tyro would last. ; Each time new tyre was put ou a new tax would .h« imid Mid « would 1* spent on .improving ' roads used mostly by the countn people. "We are up against a pretty combination," tllc ca 'i er 00 " S'V'y^r. 11 but whore thev,™uld fc. ft'SWinft..) ?° V i of 5 tWITAto bona-fida taxi proprietors, and the tax to j - S&MStfstssSs! faroS ' . Taxation by WelDtit.
This motion was .seconded, but ot a liter stage \Mr. J. Williams nronoscd: "That the taxation suggested EA. form of a vehicle tax. and that for the purpose of this tux velhicl classified according to \msM. tbo flar"The delegates will place their views on the subject of taxation before the glister of Internal Affairs to-day. A number of two-year-olds were exercl.Oft at the barrier. ELLERSUF. TRACKB. Br Telegraph—Press Asaociatlon. flUOKland, November 3 TRr>rp wnM houvy ruin .duriusc lliEllfc lug The work in consequence wa. un.mKose Queeu. and' Murlhlku arrived ycetcr<lay uttcrnopii.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 34, 4 November 1920, Page 6
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644A LEVY ON TYRES Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 34, 4 November 1920, Page 6
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