Wife's Earnings Election

HC Deb 09 November 1988 vol 140 c242W

Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, further to his reply dated 19 October,Official Report, columns 925–26, the number of tax units includes as one unit both husband and wife where a wife's earnings election is in operation.

Mr. Norman Lamont

[holding answer 4 November 1988]: Yes.