§ Mr. WISEasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer which of the Dominions, Colonies, and principal countries have an Income Tax; and what is, approximately, the amount of the Income Tax in each case?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSI shall be glad to lend my hon. Friend a proof copy of a forthcoming Stationery Office publication prepared by the Inland Revenue, which shows the British Dominions, Colonies, etc., in which an Income Tax is imposed and the general scheme of the tax and rates in force. No similar recent compilation exists as respects foreign countries, and in view of the variety of the schemes of graduated rates in the principal countries,e.g., Austria, Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States of America, Brazil. Japan, etc., I fear that I cannot give details of them within the limits of a Parliamentary answer.