0 a clear alcoholic liquid that is used for making paint thinner and removing paint from brushes and clothes
This white spirit is very largely used in a number of industries and, therefore, the tax is a direct tax on industry and production.
The expected revenue this year from this white spirit and turpentine duty, this awful revenue tax, this improper and indecent tariff, is £500,000.
I understand that there may be some difficulty in distinguishing between white spirit and petrol, but that point cannot be made in respect of turpentine.
No paint can be produced without white spirit and turpentine.
All of these industries are interested in two special sorts of hydrocarbon oils, namely, white spirit and turpentine.
Turpentine and white spirit are articles which are very different in composition.
It is a different thing altogether, and you cannot get a substitution of turpentine or white spirit and use it in place of petrol.
I hope the tax will not apply to turpentine and white spirit, however, for they cannot be produced from coal.
