§ Mr. Tapsellasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the amount that would be collected 37W annually in taxation on the basis of taxing short-term insurance benefits.
§ Mr. Harold LeverThe yield from making sickness benefit, unemployment benefit and maternity benefit liable to tax would be in the region of £100 million. But at present the practical difficulties which led to the exemption from tax of these benefits in 1949 still rule out any such proposal.