§ Captain Kerbyasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many legal actions were instituted in 1961 for the recovery 117W of Income Tax; how many of such actions were successful; how many failed; what was the cost of such actions; how much cash they recovered; and in how many cases successful defendants were repaid their costs.
§ Mr. Barber2,530 writs were issued in 1961 for the recovery of Income Tax. In nearly half these cases the tax was paid before judgment. None of the actions failed, but a very few of them118W may have been discontinued to remedy some technical flaw as a preliminary to starting the action afresh: in such cases the Inland Revenue is liable to pay any necessary or proper costs incurred in the discontinued action.
In addition local proceedings for the recovery of Income Tax were taken in about 46,000 cases.
I regret that the other information requested is not available.