Purchase Tax (Gramophone Records and Musical Instruments)

HC Deb 15 March 1960 vol 619 cc77-8W

Mr. Nabarro

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in view of the fact that proposals for Purchase Tax upon books have in the past been withdrawn on cultural grounds, whether he will similarly remove Purchase Tax from gramophone records now charged at 50 per cent. and from musical instruments charged at 25 per cent.

Mr. Amory

I cannot anticipate my Budget statement.