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TAX ON PLEASURE.

PREMIER HOPES TO DROP IT. REVENUE NOT UP TO ESTIMATE. SOME EXEMPTIONS MADE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. ■ Wellington, Last Night. In the House to-night, the Premier moved the second reading of the Amusement Tax Bill, which he said was largely a consolidation of the existing law. Mr. Massey -said he was somewhat disappointed with the amount of revenue derived from the tax, which he knew was not a popular tax. They expected to realise £160,000, but they might get £120,000 to £135,000, and so far as he could see it was increasing rather than decreasing. In any case he expected to get more during the summer than during the winter months. He explained that he proposed to add poultry shows to the exemptions, provided the proceeds were devoted to the objects of the society. He did not like collecting money through the amusement tax and as soon as he could repeal it he would so so. Frankly, he disliked the amusement tax, but the Bill was a liberal one in several respects, as he estimated he was giving away about £25,000. Mr. H. E. Holland (Leader of the Labor Party) objected to the whole principle of the amusement tax and in committee he would give the House an opportunity of repealing it. Air. T. W. Rhodes (Thames) appealed for the exemption of R.S.A. entertainments from the tax. Mr. V. H. Potter (Roskill) asked the Premier to exempt boxing exhibitions from the tax. Mr. T. M. Wilford (Leader of the Opposition) thought the tax on boxing exhibitions should be collected on the profits and not on the entrance tickets, otherwise they would have difficulty in carrying on this expensive sport. Mr. W. S. Glenn (Rangitikei) asked for more consideration for football, winch gave the country Hhe best advertisement New Zealand ever had. Mr. Savage contended the tax was fundamentally unsound and he hoped the Premier would find some other way of providing revenue. Mr. W. D.> Lysnar (Gisborne) said it was time enough to talk about doing away with this tax when the Minister of Finance said the finances of the country warranted it being taken off. That was a true sporting view. The Premier announced that he proposed to exempt swimming clubs. He also stated he proposed to exempt musical and elocutionary competitions. Other members contributed to the debate, each urging the claims of some organisation. The Premier, in reply, said the amusement tax was a -war measure, necessitated by the urgency of the circumstances, and as things were improving he hoped soon to do without it altogether. In the .meantime he was thinking out a scheme of graduated taxation on racing clubs, which would relieve them somewhat, as he knew they were hard pressed. He was also prepared to amend the Bill so as to give the commissioner greater discretion in making exemptions. The Bill was read a second time.

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Taranaki Daily News, 4 October 1922, Page 5

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TAX ON PLEASURE. Taranaki Daily News, 4 October 1922, Page 5

TAX ON PLEASURE. Taranaki Daily News, 4 October 1922, Page 5

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