29 JANUARY 1916, Page 15

A TAX ON AMUSEMENTS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "" SPECTATOR."' S111,—It is quite clear that we shall have to pay new taxes. Can you not see your way to urge a tax of a penny in the shilling or of 10 per cent. on every theatre or cinema ticket, and all tickets of admission to all places of amusement, including race meetings and football matches ? The tax would not be difficult to collect. It has long been the case abroad—and would hurt G. B. REID.

nobody.—I am, Sir, &c.,

Pair Hill, Camberley, Surrey. (We have already demanded such taxation on sever al occasions. —ED. Spectator.]