The Petrol Tax.
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We hope the motor-spirit companies will find a means to render separate invoices for any duty upon fuel which is to be re-exported: an avoidable grievance will otherwise occur in respect of the growing sales by merchants to users at foreign ports. which are not directly served with supplies from the source. Several complaints have been personally addressed to us, and we fully appreciate the unnecessary hardship which would he inflicted by the payment of an ad-ratorem duty upon the British duty of 3d. per gallon. It has been stated, by those who have the relations, that they are obliged to declare the value of the spirit plus the duty, which, by the time the oldstanding duties of the ports of destination are added. means a serious extra for customers abroad, who often have to buy in costly packages. It is, of course, less important to save a few pence per gallon in countries where transport is dear, than in England where competition for traffic is keen, but we trust that a solution can and will be found. It is certainly a harsh anomaly, that an import duty at home, which is subsequently rebated on the re-export of the goods, should inevitably add to the declared value for the levying of duty at the ultimate port of entry. Mr_ Henry Sturmey deals with some other Finance-Bill points on page 308.