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Mar. 2 ;. t . | y [ .. * Six Cents Per Gallon Is * % * Charge Levied on Con---- f _ sumer, Starting at Mid-- j night Thursday--Comes I Automatically in Force, + + I _ at Service Stations | | ncrre nnrees rnrenne inemgndies | ! NO PRICE DECREASE, | _ OIL OFFICIAL SAYS ' At micmnight last night. as an Baster | gift from tne Government to the peo-- | ple of Ontario, the new gasolinzs tax | came into effect, so that those who / 4 A are going away in their cars for the IX n IVI S holiday will ps~ six cents tax on | every gallon of gas they buy, instead 'of five cents, as heretofore. | _ _Asked by The Globe at the Legis-- A | lature last night whether the act, " | would go into effect when Royal as-- | sent was given or at some other time, Hon. Leopold Macaulay, Minister of Highways. succinctly replied: "At & d ; | midnight tonight." @ | The purpose of the new act, "to | | amend the gasoline tax," is avowedly | "for a fair contribution by the users s | of roads in Ontario toward the cost en 3 of construction and maintenance \thoreof." Every purchaser of gas, the Seeks to Refer Amend-- iacn has it, "shall pay to the Minister x * for the use of his Majesty in the ments Back to Commit-- | Province of Ontario a charge or tax | at the rate of six cents a gallon on all tee and ASkS Delay Of ; | gasoline purchased, or delivery of $ s | which is received by him." Clause's Effective Date ! Farmers, fishermen and munici-- 'm tg;gell?'t;d vehicles are exempt --Lost, 54--18 ' The new increase in the tax was _--_--~_--_--___-- . announced under the recent Budget of ar Hon. Edward A. Dunlop, Provincial GAS TAX SOUGHT f easurer. re When the amerdment to the Gas FOR HIGHWA\ S Tax Act, providing for an increase of one cent per gallon on the present P e n impost of five cents per gallon, was rogressiv ader IHarry C. Nixon going through committee, Mr. Hipel, Progrensive Letd(.? .axir_\' 5 %_J seconded by Mr. Nixon, tried to in-- plunged tnans Ontario Legislature into | troduce a furthar amendment provid-- its second division yesterday whon at ing that ?1' collcctans from U;_'U'S three minutes of midnight h> moved, | channel of revenue set aside for ¢ avicr (North construction of roads and highways st'zcox?.ded py 1: : T.'?IFI ,'\\U debt retirement. The covering mo-- Grey) that the contentious Cul}{O'd- tion was decisively defeated, however.! ticns Tax Act amendments, which | 'rH\?nt. Le?p;fld gac?};fla.vi{ Hitzh\;"gv\:; will bring some $2,000,000 in addi-- | Minister, inform e House that| .; uenRile 6 UGnveramsnt an-- the old rate of 2 per cont. which the| tional revenue to .mi b?\gr im lt.a»lfi Government allowed the oil compan-- nually, be refericd back to commuttce | ies for collecting the gas tax had| |from third--reading stage and that a ; be%l] reducc:tii thitiit'e:r;swfilfst per cer;:;j.: new clause be inserted stipulating that | e gasoline st impos } o o. i C ars in 1925, with the tax on the gallon at| | the act should come into operation three cents. Three years later it was| cnly on proclamation, and then not | raised to five cents, and now to six| |until a general elsction had besn | cents. The year after the imposition' held. of the gasoline tax the automobile| | The Speaker attempted to an-- license fee was reduced, with a !ur-! | nounce the vote on the "yeas" and ther reduction three years later, but, |\ 'nays," but Mr. Nixon called for a in December of last year the fee was | division, which resulted in the third raised on an average of $3 a car. | | reading of the bill bsing given on a Asked as to the possibility of 'hej | recorded vote of 54--18, the Assembly companies absorbing the added tax by | | polling on straight party lines. the reduction of gasoline by a cent| On the same division the House per gallon, The Globe's informant re-- | | 1so 1 4 down a move by Norman ' plied: '"If there has been a reduc--| | 2 °0_ furned C (y U ¥ ?ion in the Province of Quebec. that) | O. Hipe! (Libsral, South Waterlo9) action had no relation to the tax situ. -- to refer the gas tax act back | to ation. It should be remembered that | committee so as to further amend it Mr. Victor Ross, in his evidence re-- |to the extent of requiring all rev-- cer{tly before the Banking and Com-- |enues from the tax to be used {or merce Committee in the gasoline in-- | road--building and highways debt rc-- quiry before the committee at Otta-- |tirement. An attempt by .T. H. wa, indicated that his company made -- Biakelock (Liberal, Halton), to secure s h 1.01 cents per gallon on their product. |a six months' hoist.of the Amuse-- Obviously there would be no reason to | ments Tax Act amendments weas also expect any reduction there." "killed" on the 54--18 division. 4