KATES IN OTHER COUNTRIES.
There are worse countries than New Zealand for motorists. Australia lias a taxation scheme based on horse-power and weight, and the minimum is £3 a year. Light British cars of 12 horsepower pay £3 5s a year. Powerful cars range from £7 to £9. Then South Australia has a petrol tax of 3d per gallon. The import duties are at least as high as those in New Zealand, bo that it is difficult to see that Australia lets its motorists down as lightly, as in New Zealand. Consider also the purchaser of an 'American 21 horse-power ear in Britain. For a start the car is subject to |the M'Konna import duties. Then .there is the annual tax of £.21. The American car in Britain contributes a great deal more in taxation than it .would in Now Zealand. The horsepower tax in Britain averages £15 8s for ordinary cars. The European motorist is very badly treated in respect to imported cars. Germarly has one of the highest protective tariffs in the world, and yet ,<tireet taxos are also heavy. Of course the American motorist is Hot heavily taxed. America has been laying national highways for many years, and there are now 20,000,000 Vehicles to contribute to tho maintenance and the residue of construction. New Zealand has yet much roading to accomplish.- Petrol taxes in 45 American States yielded £28,500,000 in 1925. They ranged from to 3d per gallon, ffhe average.is Id per gallon, and the cost of collection is- only one-third of British tax administrative expenses. .The Amorican taxation from all sources averages about £5 per vehicle, although tho petrol tax system distributes the expense in fair proportion to usage. It is, therefore, possible to double- this Bum if a car is used abnormally. During 1923 American petrol taxes produced. 37,800,060 dollars; excise duty, 157,700,000 dollars; registration and license fees, 188,500,000 dollars; and municipal taxes, 13,000,000 dollars. This is an aggregate of 397,000,000 dollars, or £79,400,000 from 15,000,000 ye-
hides, or approximately £5 6s per car per year.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 18
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341KATES IN OTHER COUNTRIES. Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 18
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