§ Mr. MULDOONasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether a vastly increased number of claims for Income Tax in respect both of the ownership and occupation of land in Ireland, under the Income Tax Act of 1853, had been made by the Inland Revenue authorities during the last and the present years; whether the persons from whom payment was made were in the great majority of cases small farmers who are totally exempt from payment under the Acts; whether he had received complaints that the officials engaged in the assessment and collection had circulated that it was under the Finance (1909–10) Act that the assessment was made; and whether he would alter the forms in use so that the statute or statutes under which claims were made should in every case appear upon their face?
§ Mr. ILLINGWORTHFor the year 1910–11 a revaluation of property for the purposes of assessment to Income Tax, Schedules A and B, was made in Ireland, 18 as in England and Wales; and some properties exempted from Income Tax m previous years, were brought into assessment owing to the neglect of the owners, to prove their title to exemption by completing and returning the forms of claim which they had received. My right hon. Friend has not received any complaints of the nature referred to in the third part of the question, and I do not consider any alteration in the form is necessary.