HC Deb 20 April 1970 vol 800 cc172-3

Motion made, and Question,

That Chapter II of Part I of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 (personal reliefs) be amended as follows:—

  1. (a) in section 8 (married and single relief)—
    1. (i)in subsection (1)(a) (married), for the reference to £375 there shall be substituted a reference to £465,
    2. (ii)in subsection (1)(b) (single), for the reference to £255 there shall be substituted a reference to £325,
    3. (iii)in subsection (2) (wife's earned income relief), for the reference to £255 there shall be substituted a reference to £325, and
    4. (iv)in subsection (3) (amount of married relief in year of marriage), for the words "reduced by £10 for each month of the year ending before the date of the marriage "there shall be substituted" reduced, for each month of that year ending before the date of the marriage, by one-twelfth of the amount by which it exceeds the sum specified in paragraph (b) of that subsection ",
  2. (b) section 22 (reduced rate relief) shall cease to have effect,
  3. (c) in section 7 (relief for persons over 65 with small incomes)—
    1. (i)for the references to £425 and £680 (income limits for exemption) there shall be substituted references to £475 and £740,
    2. (ii)for the reference to £265 (the excess over those limits beyond which relief by 173 reduction of tax is excluded) there shall be substituted a reference to £255, and
    3. (iii) for the reference to nine-twentieths (the fraction governing relief by reduction of tax) there shall be substituted a reference to 50 per cent.,
  4. (d)in Section 6(2) (relief for small incomes), for the reference to £710 (the income limit for marginal relief) there shall be substituted a reference to £750, and for the reference to one-half (the fraction governing marginal relief) there shall be substituted a reference to 55 per cent.
  5. (e)in section 16 (relief for dependent relative), for the reference in subsection (1) to £245 (lower income limit of dependent relative) there shall be substituted a reference to (£260, for the references in subsections (1) and (2) to £320 (the normal higher income limit) there shall be substituted references to £335, and for the reference in subsection (2) to £355 (the higher income limit where the claimant is a woman other than a married woman living with her husband) there shall be substituted a reference to £370, and
  6. (f)in section 14(1)(a) (additional relief for widows and others in respect of children: relief excluded in the case of a woman who is not a widow unless in full-time occupation or totally incapacitated), the words from "except that it does not apply"to "physical or mental infirmity" shall be omitted;
but the amount of tax deductible or repayable under section 204 of the said Act of 1970 (pay-as-you-earn) shall until 6th July 1970 be the same as if the amendments proposed by the preceding provisions of this Resolution other than paragraph (e) had not been made (any necessary correction being made on or after that day by adjusting subsequent deductions or repayments under that section, or, if need be, by an assessment):

And it is hereby declared that it is expedient in the public interest that this Resolution should have statutory effect under the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1968.—[Mr. Roy Jenkins]

put forthwith pursuant to Standing Order No. 90(2) (Ways and Means motions), and agreed to