§ Major KINDERSLEYasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he can supply the figures to support the estimate that the abolition of the Inhabited House Duty-will probably be a greater relief to the married man with an income of £500 a year than a reduction of 6d. in the Income Tax?
§ Mr. SNOWDENA married man is, in the majority of cases, entitled to allowances for young children, if not for other dependants. If I take the case of a married man earning £500 with three children and no other dependants, a reduction of 6d, in the present standard rate of Income Tax would reduce his liability to tax by £1 13s. 9d. The Inhabited House Duty on a house of a pre-War rent of £50, now raised to £70, would be £1 15s.