ASKING FOR PETROL TAX

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 331, 17 April 1928, Page 6

ASKING FOR PETROL TAX

BRITISH A.A.’S PETITION The Automobile Association of Great Britain is again asking its 350.000 members and everybody else to sign a petition to Parliament for a petrol tax. Mr. W. R. Morris, when in Australia, said that lie thought it preferable to the present horse-power tax. Reasons given by the association for the necessity of this form of motor taxation are: Payment of a lump sum tax in advance presses hardly upon motorists of moderate means. The' keeping of reserve vehicles is now discouraged, as persons owning two cars, only one of which is on the road at a time, are compelled to pay full tax on both cars. Large numbers of second-hand cars which could be used are idle throughout the country because of the liability to heavy taxation immediately they are taken into occasional use. The possibilities of the tax being evaded are remote, and that is the only practical and sound basis for the taxation of motor owners. | The Royal Air Force, which recently | purchased Morris -six- wheelers, has | now placed an order for a fleet of 1G ; h.p. Empire model cars—saloons and i tourers. The cars will be used for the ! transporting of officers from one airj dome to another.