No Budget Hint on Fuel Tax
7th February 1964, Page 40
7th February 1964
Page 40
Page 40, 7th February 1964
— No Budget Hint on Fuel Tax
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THE Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Maudling, stuck firmly to the timehonoured formula of not anticipating his Budget when he was pressed in the Commons this week to reduce the tax on bus fuel oil. In face of demands from both sides of the House, he was considering a number of serious representations about the duty, but would not be drawn into any statement. .
Mr. Peter Doig (Labour, Dundee West) recalled that both the Minister of Transport and the Buchanan Report had stressed the vital necessity of encouraging more people to use public transport and said that the heavy tax did not help.
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