HC Deb 23 April 1940 vol 360 cc105-6

Resolved, That Income Tax for the year 1939–40 in respect of the excess of the total income of an individual over two thousand pounds shall be charged at rates in the pound which respectively exceed the standard rate by amounts equal to the amounts by which the rates at which Income Tax was charged in respect of the said excess for the year 1938–39 respectively exceeded the standard rate for that year: And it is hereby declared that it is expedient in the public interest that this Resolution shall have statutory effect under the provisions of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act, 1913.