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THE case for withholding the imposition of the proposed purchase tax from printed books and periodicals was put before a private meeting of Members of Parliament held on August 6. As a result of the meeting, Mr. Kenneth Lindsay obtained support for an amendment which he is to submit proposing to omit printed books, music, pamphlets and leaflets from the schedule of taxable articles, and P. J. Loftus put forward another amendment which would exempt weekly, monthly and quarterly technical, scientific and trade journals retailed at not less than 6d. An amendment to exempt newspapers and periodicals is to be moved by Mr. Mander. NATURE has already discussed the probable effects of the imposition of a sales tax on books and other publications (May 11, p. 719, and August 3, p. 160). On general as well as scientific grounds, the imposition of a tax on books is a bad thing, which even at the present time cannot be justified on grounds of financial expediency.
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Sales Tax on Books and Periodicals. Nature 146, 192 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146192c0
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