Clause 11. — (General Betting Duty)

Part of Orders of the Day — Finance Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 16 June 1966.

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I say that if shading the odds is a practicable means of recovering the tax from the punter, I do not mind. I can go to one "bookie" at a point-to-point and get 7 to 4, and I can go to the "bookie" next door and get 6 to 4, or to the "bookie" next door to him and get 2 to 1. They are all different. They are all, in measure, shading the odds.