MANUFACTURERS' VIEWS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 39, 16 February 1933, Page 6

MANUFACTURERS' VIEWS

. ;The sales tax was discussed at length' at a largely-attended'meeting of- manufacturers' representatives held in the Dominion Farmers' Institute; last evening. Mr. .J. Abel, president :of _he .Wellington Manufacturers' Association, was in the'chair. -."..• ".'A motion protesting against a widening, of .the .."field.; 'oof .exemptions from the sales tax-and^registering..-the.opinion that, as"'the. tax' was a community one, additional. 'exemptions should .-be restricted -Jto s the 'essential if ood requirements of the people, native timber for building and plant," and machinery to; be used for production" was passed/ '■'-' "Another motion, J which was also,, 'unanimously carried,".endorsed, the) action of the New Zealand Manufacturers' Federation, and . urged .that, provision should be made."in the Bill for the re-; co very of the tax by the wholesaler, and the manufacturing»retailer, »and that it;sh6uld be-made compulsory for

the amount.to be shown as a separate item on tho invoice. A third ' motion, which was unanimously carried by'the 'manufacturers and by another meeting of manuiactur. ing retailers, was: "That it be recommended to the Goverrirhent'that no sales tax be payable in respect of materials purchased by a manufacturing retailer on his giving a writtendcclaration that such materials will be used by him exclusively for the purpose of manufacture, or, alternatively,, that the full amount of the sales .tax paid.'each month on- raw materials purchased: bo deducted from the sales tax payable on the output during the same period."