§ SIR WILLIAM BULL (Hammersmith)To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer if it is by his direction that on the 23rd instant Income Tax forms of returns were delivered by hand throughout the City of London,demanding particulars of the number of officials, their salaries, and other details, employed by each company for the year ending 5th April, 1908, on the old forms of 1907, showing none o the proposed abatements.
§ (Answered by Mr. Asquith.) Such forms have been issued in the course of the regular annual procedure. It is impossible for the Inland Revenue either to anticipate the decisions of Parliament or to arrest the whole machinery of assessment until those decisions have been finally reached. When that has been done, the necessary measures for correction and adjustment will be taken.