§ MR. M'EWAN (Edinburgh, Central)asked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, If there is any truth in the report which appeared in The Edinburgh Evening News on the 4th instant,
That it is in contemplation to remove thy Office of Claims for repayment of Income Tax from Edinburgh to London?
THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (Mr. GOSCTTEN) (St. George's, Hanover Square)The Scotch claims for repayment of Income Tax are now all settled by the issue of money orders from Somerset House, London; and the only change contemplated is that henceforth the claims themselves should com ft direct from the various Scotch surveyors, or from the claimants themselves, to Somerset House, in order that the repayments may be thereby accelerated and an economy effected. The present practice of focussing such claims at the Edinburgh Office for the purpose of transmission to London only occasions delay, and answers no useful purpose.