The Tax on Actors and Musicians It is satisfactory that
the Chancellor of the Exchequer should on Tuesday have declared himself ready to consider in principle a small reduction of the entertain- ment-tax on theatres where an orchestra was employed —as distinct from the gramophone now frequently employed. But more than that is needed. In view of the serious amount of unemployment among actors and actresses and musicians the tax ought to be abolished altogether for the living theatre and for concerts. It should be retained for cinema performances, where methods of mechanical mass-production make it feasible for exhibitors to charge just so much or so little as they think the public will pay. The -cinerna tax is not really a tax on the general public. It is a tax on an industry, much of it foreign, which is making very large profits.
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