§ Colonel HOWARD-BURYI beg to present a Petition of the Automobile Association and 920,000 motor owners and users, as follows:
We are gravely concerned with the continuance of the system of motor taxation imposed by the Finance Act of 1920, which in the view of your petitioners is inequitable and unjust to the vast majority of motor owners, chiefly because it levies a lump sum per vehicle entirely ignoring the extent of road users. We therefore humbly pray that the present method of motor taxation be amended in favour of a flat rate duty on petrol, plus a small registration fee, thereby more equitably distributing the burden over all motor taxpayers.