§ MR. J. H. LEWIS (Flint Boroughs)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury if he will say what steps are now taken to summon the Commissioners of Land Tax to meetings held for the election of Commissioners of Income Tax.
(Answered by Mr. Elliot.) Vacancies among the Commissioners of Income Tax are supplied from a list of persons qualified to act kept by the Clerk to the Commissioners. When it becomes necessary to renew this list, the Board of Inland Revenue, upon receiving from the clerk a notification to that effect, causes a notice to be inserted in the London Gazette, convening for this purpose a meeting of the Commissioners of Land Tax for the county. A letter is then addressed to the clerk informing him that the notice will be inserted, and a copy of the Gazette containing it sent him in due course. In this letter it is now the practice (adopted in 1901 on the suggestion of the hon. Member and some of his friends), for the Commissioners of Inland Revenue to request the clerk to take the necessary steps to ensure a full attendance by giving notice of the time and place of meeting to all Commissioners of Land Tax residing in or near the
†See (4) Debates, cxi., 1008.1297 division who are entitled to vote. For this latter purpose a printed circular is supplied by the Board of Inland Revenue if the Clerk to the Commissioners so desire. So far as the Board of Inland Revenue is aware, compliance with the above request is general.