HC Deb 02 May 1939 vol 346 c1721

20. "That, in the case of persons dying after the twenty-fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, the rates of Estate Duty set out in the Second Schedule to the Finance Act, 1930, shall, so far as they relate to estates the principal value of which exceeds fifty thousand pounds, be increased, in the case of each rate, by one-tenth of the amount thereof."