HC Deb 02 December 1975 vol 901 c564W
Mr. Gordon Wilson

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the offices and numbers of relevant employees for which he has executive or advisory responsibility in each of the following: Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Mr. Robert Sheldon

The information is as follows:

cent., the estimated cost would be £380 million.

If the top higher rate of tax on all taxable income over £8,000 was 60 per cent., the estimated cost would be £180 million.

Mr. MacGregor

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what would be the total cost to the Exchequer in the current financial year if, instead of the present thresholds and higher rates of tax, there were substituted the following: up to £10,000 at 35 per cent., next £2,000 at 40 per cent., next £3,000 at 45 per cent., and the remainder at 50 per cent.;

(2) what would be the total cost to the Exchequer in the current financial year if, instead of the present thresholds and higher rates of tax, there were substituted the following: up to £10,000 at 35 per cent., next £1,000 at 40 per cent., next £2,000 at 50 per cent., next £3,000 at 60 per cent., and the remainder at 70 per cent.

Mr. Robert Sheldon

The estimated costs for 1975–76 would be about £700 million and £540 million respectively.