HC Deb 08 May 1907 vol 174 cc218-9
MR. FELL (Great Yarmouth)

I beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much income-tax was refunded under the provisions of Section 133 of the Income-tax Act, 1842, in respect of income-tax overpaid in each of the last three years, viz., in 1904, 1905, and 1906.

MR. ASQUITH

The figures cannot be given with exact precision. But approximately the following were the amounts of tax repaid under the provisions of Section 133 of the Act of 1842 (as amended) in the years named:—1903–4, £340,000; 1904–5, £430,000; 1905–6, £500,000.