6 APRIL 1944, Page 14

MOTOR TRANSPORT AND ROAD COSTS SIR, —The claim of the Road

Federation that £79,000,000 ought to be avail- able for expenditure in the interest of motor traffic on the roads is unsound. (t) Cost of collection should be deducted ; (2) Some of the fuel tax is not contributed by road-using motors ; (3) Part of the vehicle tax is, like the old carriage tax, a tax on the expenditure of the well-to-do and should go towards general needs ; (4) the petrol tax for non-commercial cars is, similarly, a tax on consumption, like the tax on tea ; (5) Road-transport should pay for the signalling services of the police.—Yours faithfully,