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Motion made, and Question proposed,
That, towards raising the Supply granted to Her Majesty, there shall be charged, collected, and paid for the year which commenced on the sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, in respect of all Property, Profits, and Gains mentioned or chargeable in the Act of the sixteenth and seventeenth years of Her Majesty's reign, chapter thirty-four, the following Duties of Income Tax (that is to say) —
For every Twenty Shillings of the annual value or amount of Property, Profits, and Gains chargeable under Schedules (A), (C), (D), or (E) of the said Act, the Duty of Sixpence;
And for every Twenty Shillings of the annual value of the occupation of Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, and Heritages chargeable under Schedule (B) of the said Act,—
In England, the Duty of Threepence;
In Scotland and Ireland respectively, the Duty of Twopence Farthing;
Subject to the provisions contained in section one hundred and sixty-three of the Act of the fifth and sixths years of Her Majesty's reign, chapter thirty-five, for the exemption of persons whose income is less than One Hundred and Fifty-five Pounds, and in section eight of 'The Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1876,' for the relief of persons whose income is less than Four Hundred Pounds."—(Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer.)
§ *MR. H. H. FOWLERI was under the impression that the Government did not propose to take this Vote to-night, and I trust it will not be insisted on.
§ MR. GOSCHENUnder the circumstances, I do not propose to press the Motion.
§ Motion, by leave, withdrawn.