HC Deb 25 July 1929 vol 230 c1527W
Mr. HANNON

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will prepare and publish during the Recess a statement setting forth the extent to which in percentage costs productive industry in Great Britain is burdened by local and national taxation as compared with the United States, Germany, France, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Belgium?

Mr. P. SNOWDEN

I know no way of measuring the extent to which productive industry is burdened by taxation.

Mr. HANNON

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he can give as at the latest convenient date the comparative burden of taxation, national and local, borne by the individual taxpayer in Great Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and the United States of America?

Mr. P. SNOWDEN

I do not think any such comparison of burdens is practicable.