§ MAJOR RASCH (Essex, S.E.)asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether, with reference to the petitions for alteration of assessment of Inhabited House Duty, he could place lodging-house keepers and schoolmasters on the same basis as traders?
§ *THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. JACKSON,) Leeds, N.view of the fact that additional taxation is necessary in the present year, it is impossible to make modifications of the existing duties which would involve a loss to the Revenue. The alteration which the hon. Member suggests is of this character. Moreover it does not stand alone, and if we are to undertake a revision of the House Duty we must await a time when it is possible to deal with the whole group of questions which would thus be opened up.