THE RACING TAX.
The Hacing Clubs of the Dominion have a right to 'complain of the taxation at present imposed -upon. them. Instead cf heiing taxied uptto the net profits of their -meetings., they are required to pay a tax upon their takings. It will at once be seen- that this is unfair (to the smaller Clubs, whose expenses of a one or two-day •mee'tVfg ar,e proportionately higher than those cf the metropolitan clubs'. cAiy-iUiining that the State has a moral (right to extract revenue from one tform of sport and not from another—>wh.ich irighfc -a igir-eat manfy people do 'not COTicede—it is surely improper •that there -should he a differentiation against those Clubs -which are the tost able to pay.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10688, 15 July 1912, Page 4
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121THE RACING TAX. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10688, 15 July 1912, Page 4
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