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than here, or that an estimate upon the course. The backer could' af- i their returns cannot be justified. | ways obtain stamps from the post I have always been strongly of the office, money being refunded if the opinion that the amount of the stamps were not used. betting turnover in this country has been under-estimated."
1 Collection Methods. Bir Walter Gilbey, who for
In regard to the methods by many yours has studied the queswhich a betting tax could be col- tion of a tax on betting, is strongly ected, Sir Walter said:
of opinion that such a tax is prac- "License the bookmaker and in- ticable and would produce a sum sist upon starps for ready-manoya much in excess of the amount betting-that is the solution. estimated by some people-namely, £5,000,000-owing to the popu-be dealth with,
"Credit bookmaking could easily Returns would larity of horse-racing,
"You may consider betting anties, and if these returns were
have to be made to the author unnecessary evil," Sir Walter said to a Daily Mail reporter, "but this much is certain: no Government, whatever its views on the subject might be, could possibly stop it Why should they? This being the case, surely it is wise to place bet fing on a proper und just basis and to reward it as a prospective source of roverite, the incidenco of which would not be severely fell, while the results would but of great benefit?
This is the only country that does not tax betting in any form We declare it to be illegal.
Yet
"This system would apply both to racing men and to followers, of football, for football must be con- sidered, as results in that old could not full to be of importance.
"My chief purpose in advocating tax on betting is the desire to benefit the hospitals, horgo-breed-"] All these! and agriculture, need States assistance and a tax
on betting would provide it.”
The Political Correspondent, of
questioned there would be com-the Daily Mail writes: pulsory powers to inspect books. In brief, you would assess for these returns as you now nases for income tax, and the officials would deal with both sets of figures."..
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Further informtaion gather in high Ministerial quarters strength- ens the belief, that Mr. Winstonf Churchill is seriously considering' the inclusion of a betting tax in the next Budget.
Dealing with the objections to
In the course of the coming tax on betting, Sir Walter said:
wecks it is probable that he will "There is the Nonconformist have further conversations with conscience, but people must come those who have made a close study see that if it is not wrong to of the subject, and there is reason tax drink it is"not wrong to tax to believe that he has already as- betting. Staunch teetotallers do certained the opinions of his more nut object to the imposition of influential colleagues on the sub- heavy duties upon whisky, though ject. we have Feached this paradox" many of them consider the con-- that the bookmaker must pay sumption of whisky a sin income tax on his illegal carnings must admit, therefore, that their.
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tests Obviously it would be much bet-attitude towards a betting tax is for drunkenness, which has ter to come out in the open and
Bareasonable and that any re-caused some consternation among anve done with it by licensing the traint which is likely to diminish deelors, police surgeons, and jimokmaker and taxing the backer the amount.of betting is from their others concerned (several in- stances of conflicting ovidence and varying methods for, deter- mining the degree of drunkenness having arisen in the past twelvo months), has been the subject of discussion by the British Medical Association for some time, und the Association has now docided to appointed a strong committee to investigate and report on the, İsubject.
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to an amount which would not be point of view, a good thing. They
rushing.. As
result both are powerless to stop it..
Wh, backer, and fayer would have then, forbid the country to benefit security for their stakes under risk by it? of penalties."
Pari-Mutuel Opposed.
It was put to Sir Walter that the pari-mutuel had been suggest ed as the only alternative to the present system, or lack of system He dissente from that view, bo- lieving that the pari-mutuel is im- practicable in this country. No said:
"In 1922, for instance, there was dat racing on 203 days, and as on
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meeting, we hud 291 days' flat] racing in all. In addition wel hait 161 days of racing under) | National Hunt rules, in one day of April in that year there were eleven meetings.
Thus the administrative cost; of the pari-mutuel would be endr- mous. This system would requiro swarms of officials, the cost of whose travelling and hotel ac- commodation-prices are as a rule 50 percent. higher in race weeks)
would absorb, a great deal of money. The installation of thu machine is very, expensive alge,
"Therefore the State would get little or nothing out of the pari-i mutul: in fact, it might becomu anfactual burden to the taxpayer.
"A stronger reason, in my opinion, against the pari-mutuel is that alt classes of the community should have equal facilities for betting. It is, I believe, fairly estimated that between 80 and 90 per cent. of betting is done away from the course. Surely it is only just that the small racing man and | stay-at-home barker "should have the same opportunities as the Fathers"
"The pari-mutuel would not stop the small backer from betting sur reptitiously or drive the little bookmaker from our streets, and the old evils might very well find themselves allied to the new. If. on the other hand, all bookmakers' were licensel,' the", man in the street would be reasonably sure of his money, and he is the person who most needs protection."
Huge Betting Turnover. As to the possible financial re sults of a tax on betting Sir Wal- ter spake emphatically,
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"We can only conjecture them," he said, "but I'do not think they coult, fall to be remarkable. Other countries' experiments must guide us in our estimates. Zealand, for instance, had a total revenue in 1921 of £50-1,935 from the totalisator and other racing) sources. If we with our popula- tion of 47,000,000 obtained propor- tionate results, then, we should benefit to the extent of £18,000,000 per annum.
"In Buenos Aires there were in the month of November 1922 five race meetings with 40 races, and the amount invested in bets was £800,000. In December of the same year there were seven meal- ings and 58 races, and the buts amounted to £1,000,000, The population of Buenos Aires is 1,800,000.
"In this country, during October and November 1922 (there is no dat racing in December) there were 62 days of racing, not includ ing steeplechasing. If we bane our calculations upon theso figures for Buenos Aires our turn- over would be £235,000,000 for
gest that there is a greater pus- sion for betting in Buenos Aires)
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