§ SIR DAVID WEDDERBURNsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether it is the case that the Act raising the Income Tax from one per cent to three and one-eighth per cent received the assent of the Governor General of India on the 5th of April 1870; and, whether the report is correct that the salaries of public servants in India have been taxed at the rate of five and a quarter per cent for the month of April last, the additional Income Tax of two and one-eighth per cent being thus doubled for that month; and, if so, what is the reason for such a course of proceeding?
MR. GRANT DUFFstated with regard to the first Question of the hon. Baronet, he had to say that his statement was correct. With regard to his second Question the Government had no 1946 information; but as the Act, although, passed on April 5, took effect from April 1, it was quite possible that in respect of payments of salaries made between the 1st and the 5th some arrears of income tax might have to be subsequently recovered.