§ MR. E. HARRINGTON (Kerry, W.)asked the Secretary to the Treasury, If there has been in recent years (during a time of depression in trade) an increase in the impost of Income Tax in Tralee; and, whether it is true that surveyors of this tax are paid poundage on what they succeed in collecting over and above the ordinary revenue assessment?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. HENRY H. FOWLER) (Wolverhampton, E.)In Tralee, as in all other parts of the United Kingdom, the rate of Income Tax varies only as it is increased or reduced by Parliament. Surveyors are paid by salary, which does not in any way depend upon the amount of tax collected.
§ MR. E. HARRINGTONasked whether complaints had not reached the Government that the present Surveyor of Income Tax had levied an enormous increase of Income Tax in Tralee?
§ MR. HENRY H. FOWLERsaid, he could not answer that Question without Notice.