Tax Receip ▪ ts Rise, Says Report
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ipts from hydrocarbon oils I the continuing increase in of road traffic during 1960-61, issioners of Customs and n their annual report. from these duties amounted aillion, compared with £381 1959-60. The increase was rely in the Customs duty, iced over 98 per cent, of the 01.1 million. But the decline uty was also halted, and this showed a rise of £200,000 to £7,700,000.
Revenue from duties on power alcohol and petrol substitutes, which serve merely to protect the main oil duties, continued to he " insignificant."
The report adds: "Consumption of motor spirit, which was relatively high in the latter part of the year as a result of the mild winter, increased by nearly seven per cent., while deliveries of diesel oil used as road vehicle fuel rose by about eleven per cent."