§ MR. MYERI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, whether he is aware that the functions of clerks to Commissioners of Taxes, as defined by the several Tax Acts, have been largely transferred in practice to Surveyors of Taxes; and whether, seeing that the clerks to Commissioners still receive remuneration as if they did the original work, that those acting within the metropolitan area still receive remuneration based upon a poundage of income-tax on property the work of which valuation has been transferred to the various vestries (now corporations), and that the clerical work in England and Wales which clerks to Commissioners now perform is usually delegated to a clerk at low wages or is put out at piece work, the Government will appoint a Committee to inquire into the present working of the Income Tax Acts with a view to improving the machinery for assessment and collection of income-tax.
§ MR. MCKENNAThe Board of Inland Revenue inform me that they know of no foundation for any one of the suggestions conveyed in the Question