§ SIR GEORGE JENKINSONsaid, he would beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, If it is right for the parish authorities to be sending now Assessed 1251 Tax papers in respect of such Taxes (for 1869–70) and payable for the year ending April 1870, such being directly at variance with the answer given to me by him on Thursday June 17th, and reported fully in "The Times" of Friday June 18th; is it right for any Income Tax to be deducted from any payments, funds or rents, or otherwise, due between April 1869, and January 1870; and, in the future new arrangements for the collection of Income Tax once every year, will instructions be given for that Tax to be collected for all property liable within any entire parish, and not, as now is done, to be separately collected for every separate tithing or portion of a parish, which practice leads to great confusion?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERsaid, in reply, that the Assessed Taxes in 1868–9 had not yet been paid. They fell due in October this year, and in April next year. As they had to be collected by the ordinary parochial officers on the old system, he presumed it was right those papers should be circulated which were necessary for collection. His answer was that it was right to send round these papers.
SIR GEORGE JENKENSONsaid, that a notice had been placed on the church doors giving the date 1869–70.
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERsaid, that was evidently a mistake on the part of the local authorities. Instead of 1868–69, they had printed 1869–70. With respect to the supposed variance with the answer given by him on the 17th June, the answer he then gave was that the taxes would not be collected till October. What he had stated on that occasion was that the taxes did not become payable until October in this year, and April in the year afterwards. That statement which he then made was the one which he made now. In answer to the inquiry of the hon. Baronet, whether it was right for any income tax to be deducted from payments due between April 1869 and January 1870, he would say that it would be quite right if a tenant was called upon to advance the income tax for the landlord that he should deduct it from the next payment made to the landlord. With respect to the last Question he could only say that he was not aware of any intention of altering the area.