HC Deb 06 August 1940 vol 364 cc27-8
62. Mr. Rhys Davies

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether spectacles will be exempt from the Purchase Tax?

The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Captain Crookshank)

It is not proposed that the Purchase Tax should apply to spectacles as such or to lenses used in spectacles. Spectacle frames will not be taxed unless made from luxury materials such as tortoiseshell and gold.

Viscountess Astor

Will the right hon. and gallant Gentleman also bear in mind the exemption of ear trumpets, as so many of us may need them before the war is over?