Tory Warnings on Costs
9th April 1965, Page 43
9th April 1965
Page 43
Page 43, 9th April 1965
— Tory Warnings on Costs
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Georgian Era, Jacobitism, Taxation, Finance, Public Finance, Tax, Tory, Edward Heath, Fuel Tax, Politics
WARNINGS that the dearer comrnerYV cal vehicle licences would result in increased costs came from Tory MPs in the Commons. Opening the main Opposition attack on the Budget, Mr. Edward Heath said that one of the criteria for increases in indirect taxation was that they should not affect industrial costs. This increase undoubtedly would.
Mr. George Brown, the Secretary for Economic Affairs, however, prophesied that costs would not rise very much.
Mr, Edward Taylor (Tory, Cathcart) said that Scotland depended on transport for bringing to the South the goods it produced and the petrol tax was the worst possible one for the country. Now 50 per cent was to be added to lorry tax.