§ LORD CASTLEREAGH (Maidstone)I beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that persons liable to income-tax are often subject to demands for payment from two or three surveyors of taxes; that such demands are sometimes accompanied by threats of prosecution for recovery of tax already paid; and whether he will endeavour to secure that the levying of income-tax shall be made as little vexatious as possible, more especially to the struggling professional and trading classes.
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (Mr. ASQUITH,) Fifeshire, E.That the same taxpayer should in some cases receive demands for income-tax from two or more different surveyors is a necessary incident of the system of collection of income-tax at the source, but every effort is made to render the collection as little vexatious as possible.