0 a clear alcoholic liquid that is used for making paint thinner and removing paint from brushes and clothes --
It was assumed that white spirit could be used for the purpose of running an engine.
Statistics in regard to the receipts from white spirit are not available.
No pot of paint or varnish can be sold without the addition of white spirit or of vegetable hydrocarbon oil of turpentine.
The largest item would be white spirit, which would account for about £467,000, or more than half the total loss of revenue involved.
There is considerable loss in manufacture due to the volatility of these things and the difficulties in getting a drawback on white spirit.
This tax is very hard on those who use petrol and white spirit as an ordinary manufacturing agent.
Today, what is known as white spirit is the principal material used in dry cleaning.
I hope the tax will not apply to turpentine and white spirit, however, for they cannot be produced from coal.
