PRIMAGE DUTY: A PROTEST.
By Telegraph -Press A?sociation. DUNEDIN, November 12. A meeting of local merchants protested strongly against the form in which the Government propose to collect primage duty. The difficulty of computing the tax, together with getting the necessary information from the Customs Department, in addition to the trouble caused to the Customs officers, are considered altogether disproportionate to the sum to be raised. It is suegested that if a more simple means of raising this revenue cannot be adopted, primage duty should oe levied on all dutiable goods as imported, and net on goods in bond. Merchants make the suggestion that the amount required could be simply collected by the imposition of a temporary duty of an eighth of a penny on sugar.
MEETING IN AUCKLAND. [
AUCKLAND, November 12. A meeting of wholesale merchants passed a resolution protesting against the ] per cent, primage on dutiable goods owing to the trouble of collecting and making special declarations, while the bulk of the tax must fall on the wholesale traders. They recommended as an alternative the imposition of a duty of twopence a pound on tea, now on the free list.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9648, 13 November 1909, Page 7
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192PRIMAGE DUTY: A PROTEST. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9648, 13 November 1909, Page 7
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