In the Committee stage of the Finance Bill on Monday
Mr. Boner Law announced concessions on the Entertainments and Tobacco Duties. The 4d. ticket is only to be taxed ld. instead of 2d. and the 2d. tax is to begin with 5d. tickets. At the other end of the revised scale the extra tax on tickets between 7s. 6d. and 15s. is to be 6d. instead of a shilling. In regard to tobacco, the effect of the proposed increase had been to raise the price of cheaper kinds of tobacco by 2d. an ounce. As be had come to the conclusion that the only way of keeping down the price of the cheaper kinds of tobacco was to lower the duty, he proposed that from July 16th the additional duty should be only fifty per cent. This would enable the lower-priced tobaccos to be sold at an advance of Id an ounce. Mr. Wardle, the Acting Chairman of the Labour Party. in welcoming the concession, actually suggested that the very high price of tobacco had had " not a little to do with the recent industrial unrest."
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