§ 8. Commander Keransasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will introduce a provision in the Finance Bill to ensure that married men paying alimony are not scheduled and taxed as single men.
§ The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Sir Edward Boyle)No, Sir. It would not be right to extend the allowance for a married man who maintains his wife out of taxed income to a 1501 man paying alimony who is effectively relieved from tax on his alimony payments.