7. Mr. Amoryasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that the Controller of Stamps is instructing 78W inspectors of taxes that certain deeds securing the payment of annuities are insufficiently stamped, although the Stamp Duty on them was adjudicated by his officers and they were duly stamped accordingly and were accepted by the Inland Revenue authorities as in order for the purposes of Income Tax and that the customary refund of tax is now being refused to the annuitants in respect of them; whether such action has his approval; and what statutory authority the Controller of Stamps has to declare insufficiently stamped a document on which the Stamp Duty has been adjudicated.
§ Sir Stafford CrippsIf the hon. Member will send me particulars of the cases to which he refers, I will look into them.