COLONIAL EMPIRE (INCOME TAX)

HC Deb 05 March 1947 vol 434 c60W

Mr. Gammans

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many Colonial Governments have introduced Income Tax since July, 1945.

Mr. Creech Jones

The only Colonial territory in which Income Tax has been introduced since July, 1945, is the Virgin Islands—one of the Presidencies in the Leeward Islands Colony. Income Tax was, of course, already in force in most Colonial Dependencies before that date.