§ MR. SOARES (Devonshire, Barnstaple)To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he can give a rough 1133 estimate of the value of Colonial Government stocks assessed to income-tax in this country.
(Answered by Mr. Asquith.) The aggregate amount of assessments on income from Colonial Government securities is shown in the Table CLXXXVIII. on page 206 of the Forty-ninth Report of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue [Cd. 3110]. The total in 1904–5 was £ 13,553,540. It is of course, the income derived from the stocks, and not the value of the stocks themselves, which is the subject of assessment, and I have no statistics of the capital value of the stocks affected.