§ Mr. Robson Brownasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the annual receipts from Pay As You Earn contributions for each year since the introduction of the arrangement; and what were the 178W annual amounts reclaimed for the same period.
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterThe receipts from Pay As You Earn for each year since its inception are shown in the table below. These are the actual amounts received from employers after allowing for the repayments of tax made by them in the course of the operation of the Pay As You Earn system; it is not possible to distinguish these repayments separately. The table also shows the estimated amounts of repayments of Pay As You Earn tax which were made by inspectors of taxes and repayments through the Employment Exchanges.
P.A.Y.E.* RECEIPTS AND REPAYMENTS OF TAX Year Tax Received Estimated Tax Repaid £ million £ million 1944–1945 … 490 10 1945–1946 … 581 20 1946–1947 … 425 20 1947–1948 … 443 15 1948–1949 … 446 14 1949–1950 … 491 16 1950–1951 … 493 19 *The P.A.Y.E. system did not apply to the pay, pensions etc. of the Forces for years prior to 1947–1948.