§ 57. Viscount SANDONasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if, when an Income Tax payer has been given specific exemption on his claim for assessment, he will take steps to prevent the Inland Revenue Department subsequently, in reversing its decision, compelling retrospective payment several years later?
§ Mr. McNEILLIf my noble Friend will give me particulars of the ease which 246 he has in mind, I will gladly cause inquiry to be made into the matter, and will communicate the result to him in due course.
§ 63. Sir JOHN PENNEFATHERasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if his attention has been drawn to the case of a bankrupt cotton broker in Liverpool, who has been proved to have defrauded the Inland Revenue Department; if so, is he aware that the Liverpool Cotton Association has expressed its opinion of the circumstances attending this bankruptcy by expelling the man, and that the committee of inspection in the bankruptcy, consisting entirely of members of the Cotton Association, are strongly of opinion that, on the facts disclosed, the bankrupt ought to be prosecuted for fraud by the Inland Revenue authorities; and will he state what steps have been, or will be, taken in this direction?
§ Mr. McNEILLI am not yet in a position to make any statement in regard to this ease, which is still under inquiry.