HC Deb 23 May 1898 vol 58 c352
MR. FIELD

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he can state the amount of income tax paid by the Civil Service Store, Edinburgh, and the Scottish Wholesale Co-operative Store, Glasgow, respectively, for the past year?

MR. HANBURY

The information for which the honourable Member asks could not be furnished without a violation of the oath (or declaration) imposed under the Act of 1842 upon the Commissioners, assessors, and collectors of income tax, and also upon the officers of the Inland Revenue, who are concerned in the administration of the tax.