§ MR. CORRIE GRANT (Warwickshire, Rugby)To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Departmental Committee of Inquiry into the Income-Tax has reported; and, if not, when its Report may be expected; and whether a copy of its Report will be laid upon the Table of the House.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) The Committee has not yet reported, but I am informed that its Report may be looked for shortly. The work of the Committee has been somewhat prolonged by the addition in November to their reference of an instruction to inquire and report whether co-operative societies enjoy under the present law any undue exemption from liability to income-tax. When I have received the Report, I will consider whether it can be presented to Parliament.