BUDGET DEBATE.
LAND TAXES. CLUB CHARGES. London, May 12. There was a long and technical discussion in the House of Commons on the duty on fo:eign beer (which has been fixed at is per 36 gallons), club licenses, and the land values duties. Mr Pretyman (Unionist) enumerated eight heavy taxes that are borne by the land, and emphasised the injustice of adding four when incomes derivable from land are falling. The real burden, he said, fell not on the great lan(L owners, but ou the qwners of small properties who did not possess other resources, The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Lloyd-George, accepted Unionist suggestions, and changed the duty in the case of clubs from threepence per pound on liquor sold to sixpence per pound upon liquor purchased. Mr A. B. Markham (Liberal) accused the Government of preventing the House of Commons from raising the poundage owing to the Government’s fear of the enormous political influence of clubs. Several members advocated a poundage equal to that in the case of licenses of public-houses.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 458, 13 May 1909, Page 3
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173BUDGET DEBATE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 458, 13 May 1909, Page 3
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