§ MR. SEARSTo ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give a list of the places in which the collection of schedules D and E income-tax has been transferred from parochial collectors to collectors of inland revenue, the date of transfer in each case, and the saving effected in poundage previously paid to parochial collectors; will he state what success has attended the change; and why it has not been extended so as to embrace the whole of England and Wales.
(Answered by Mr. Asquith.) The Inland Revenue Department's own officers collect the duty on all assessments made by the special Commissioners, and the whole of the income-tax under schedules D and E in many of the large towns where the appointment of collectors of taxes has devolved upon the Department, including Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Bradford, Bristol, Bolton, Derby, Hull, Leeds, Leicester, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oldham, Warrington, Wolverhampton, Cardiff, Portsmouth, Sheffield, Southampton, and Sunderland. It would mean a considerable expenditure of time to verify the exact dates from which the several arrangements run, and the exact financial effect of each. The arrangement for collection of schedules D and E works well in the larger provincial centres, but would not be suitable for general adoption.