Purchase Tax on Vans?
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REPRESENTAT1ONS have been made by the National Employers' Association of Vehicle Builders against a Government proposal to alter the purchase-tax regulations concerning road vehicles in such a way as to bring certain vans within its scope, simply because they have rear windows.
The regulations as they now stand provide that purchase tax shall apply, with certain exceptions, to road vehicles constructed or adapted solely or mainly for the carriage of passengers, or having to the rear of the driver's seat roofed accommodation lit by side window e and fitted with, or constructed or adapted for the fitting of, seating for passengers.
The proposed alteration in the regulations provides that the tax shall apply to vehicles having to the rear of the driver's seat roofed accommodation fitted with side or rear windows, or constructed or adapted for fitting of such windows, or fitted with seating for passengers or constructed or adapted for fitting of such seating.
LUTON CO-ORDINATION BEGINS
CO-ORDNATED passenger services in the Luton area between Luton Corporation and the Eastern National Omnibus Co., Ltd., began on September 18. Entailing complete re-organization, the new system provides' for equal sharing of services and receipts by the two undertakings.
The area affected by. the new scheme lies outside the London Transport area and is bounded by Whipsnade, Dunstable, Toddington, Sundon, Streatley, Great Tags