§ Mr. SHIELDasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the amount of taxation per head of population in the United Kingdom for the years 1929–30 and 1930–31; the amount of revenue raised under direct taxation and under indirect taxation for the years 1929–30 and 1930–31; and the actual income assessed for Income Tax under each schedule?
§ Mr. P. SNOWDENThe answer to the first two parts of the question is as follows:
1929–30. 1930–31. Taxation per head (national only) £14 15s. 10d. £15 6s. 5d. Direct taxation £434,166,000 £462,781,000 Indirect taxation £242,615,000 £240,907,000 My hon. Friend will find estimates of the actual income as assessed to Income Tax for the year 1929–30 in Table 47 of the recently published 73rd Annual Report of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue (Command Paper 3802). The figures for 1930–31 are not yet available.