Proposal to Give Exemptions jand Redustions in Certain Cases London, June 7.
In the House of Commons to-day Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Minister of Health, moved the second reading of the Rating Valuation apportionment will, which was outlined by the Chancellor of the Exquer, Mr, Winston Churchill, in hig Budget speech on April 24.
The Bill provides for the entire exemption of agriculture from rates and industrial promises, primarily used for productive purposes, from three-quarters of the "rates "they pay under the present laws. Railways and docks are also relieved of rates on the condition that the railways will pass on the relief so received to the coal, iron and steel trades and to agriculture.
The Government hopes by these means to diminish the margin between prices and costs, Mr. Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government of 1924, moved a La-hour amendment on the ground that the proposals were: bound to unfair discrimination in enterprises and localities and increase the Lur-den on householders and shopkeepers. He contended that rates tuted no burden. The burden, Was the unfair incidence of ing.' Mr, Snowden averred that the increased burden due to increased rates since 1913 on output was under one half of one per cent.
The House then adjourned. Reuter.
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