MOTOR TAXES
44*. S FIGURES FOR VARIOUS • GulL\ iRIE.S. AN INTERESTING COMPARISONStatistics compiled by the British Society of Motor Mamuacturers snow that Denmark is the most highly taxed ; motoring community iii the wowd. The average power of ears in use in that country is '2O li.p., and for such a vehicle 7000 .miles a year £42'is paid in taxation of tall kinds. Jll Australia, where car is average 20 h.p., the total taxation is approximately £23; while in Greet Britain, where the average power of cars is only' 13 h.p., the total taxation is £3O os a year. These figures are baced on direct annual tax? petrol tax, driving license, compulsory insurance, and other impositions which do not apply in all countries, and are based on a mileage of 7030 a year. "AmcricUn moforists are most favourably treated, and although the average car is of 28 h.p. the total taxation iii me various states varies from only £7 bs in California to £l3 10s in Mississippi. The taxation records in other states are nearer the. Californian figures than those of Mississippi. The owner of a 34 h.p. oar in Denmark is forced to pay £BO 16s a year, and in Italy, where the petrol tax is highest, such a car would cost more' than £BB'for a year’s running. The amount of petrol tax in this case is a little more than half the total. Australian taxation on this oar would be approximately £3B 11s, made up as follows : Petrol tax, about- £23 15s; direct taxation, about £8 On; driving license. ' 10s; one-seventh sales tax, about £O.
Tho following figures show the- averaeg total taxation in various parts of tlie world, together with power of tlie ;average car in use in each country:— Il:'R. Total.
Australia ' 20 £23.0 Austria 14 £33.0 Denmark 20 £42.0 France 14 £20.0 Germany 14 £25.1 Italy 15 £35.0 Netherlands 20 £29.6 New Zealand 14 £13.3 Rhodesia, N. 20 £9.0 Rhodesia, S 20 £10.0 Sweden ... ... ... 24 £26.0 Switzerland 16 £26.2 California 28 £7.4 Illinois 28 £8.4 Michigan 28 £9.6 Mississippi 28 £13.8 Now York ... ... 28 £9.3 Pennsylvania 28 . £9.2 Union of South Africa ... 20 £23.0 United. Kingdom ... 13 £30.5
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1933, Page 8
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