HC Deb 05 April 1939 vol 345 cc2787-8
73. Mr. Broad

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the football-pool companies also engaged in retail storing are subject to separate assessment of Income Tax on their retail business as apart from football-pool business?

Captain Wallace

All business profits are liable to assessment to Income Tax, but where businesses are carried on by separate companies each company would be separately assessed.

Mr. Garro Jones

Is this company allowed to set off its losses on developing retail store businesses against its profits on the pools, and does the right hon. Gentleman realise that, if so, the Board of Inland Revenue is financing those businesses?

Captain Wallace

This question is put down in general terms. There is no reference to any particular company, and if the hon. Gentleman likes to ask about any particular company I will give him any information I can.