§ Mr. ADAMSONasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state the amount of Excess Profits Tax collected from the coal-mining industry for each year since the tax came into operation?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINI would refer the right hon. Member to the answer which I gave on this subject to the hon. Member for Edinburgh East on the 17th of July. I am sending him a copy of this answer.
YEAR 1918–19. Individuals with incomes. Aggregate taxable income. Per cent, of taxable income paid in Income Tax and Super-tax. Balance of taxable income after deducting Income Tax and Super-tax. £ Per cent. £ Exceeding; £130 and not exceeding £2,500 1,327,700,000 8.2 1,218,276,000 Exceeding £2,500 … … 417,300,000 39.2 253,908,000 Corresponding figures for 1919–20 are not yet available.
§ Mr. HASLAMasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with, reference to the figures given in Command Paper 224, of 1919, the percentage the total sum of Income Tax and Super-tax bears in respect of each category of income given in the Return to the total taxable income given in each category, and, for comparison, the corresponding figures for the following year?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINWith regard to the first part of the question, I would refer my hon. Friend to my reply to his question on 21st July last. Similar information for the current year is not yet available.