HC Deb 05 July 1907 vol 177 c978

Considered in Committee.

(In the Committee.)

Resolved, That if the rate of duty on any local taxation licence (including any duty charged under sub-section (1) of section eight of the Locomotives on Highways Act, 1896) is hereafter increased, there shall be added to the amounts payable to the local taxation account out of the Consolidated Fund such sums (if any) as may be required to bring the amount payable in any year to the local taxation account up to the amount which would have been payable if the proceeds of that duty in that year were taken to be the average proceeds of the duty for the three years ending March the thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seven, and if the sum ascertained to have been collected in that year in any county in England in respect of that duty were taken to be the average sum so ascertained to have been collected for the three years ending March the thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seven.— (Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer.)

Resolution to be reported upon Monday next.