§ Brigadier-General MAKINSasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what would be the approximate annual loss to the Treasury on the basis of the revenue from Income Tax for 1931 if married women were treated on the same basis as single women for Income Tax purposes and husbands did not have to add the income of their wives to their own for such purposes?
§ Major ELLIOTThe extent of the loss to the Exchequer would depend upon the amount of redistribution of income that might take place and cannot therefore be fully measured on the basis of existing incomes. In certain circumstances the loss might be as much as £30,000,000.