MR. MOWBRAY (Lancashire, Preston)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether persons making a return of Income Tax to the Surveyor of Taxes through the post are required to stamp their envelopes; and whether the form of Income Tax paper could not be so printed as to be folded up with the name of the Surveyor on the outside and forwarded free of postage, in the same way as the Demand Forms for Papers in this House?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Sir J. T. HIBBERT,) OldhamThe Post Office requires postage to be paid on all letters sent through the post 235 to surveyors of taxes by the public. The Income Tax papers contain printed matter on all four sides, and, though the printing might possibly be rearranged, I do not think it necessary to allow the papers to be sent free of postage.