HC Deb 19 July 1976 vol 915 cc356-7W
Mr. Wakeham

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what would be the approximate amount of a unified relief if the following reliefs for 1976–77 were unified at no cost to the revenue: child relief, dependent relative relief, housekeepers' relief, relief for a person looking after children, additional personal relief for children, daughter's services relief and blind person's relief, together with the excess of the married personal allowance over the single personal allowance.

Mr. Robert Sheldon,

pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 12th July 1976; Vol. 915, c. 104], gave the following information:

About £330, assuming that the married person became entitled to the single allowance plus the unified relief and that the wife's earned income allowance and age allowances were unchanged.

Mr. Wakeham

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what would be the approximate amount of a unified relief if the following reliefs for 1976–77 were unified at no cost to the revenue: single personal allowance, married personal allowance, wife's earned income allowance, child relief, dependent relative relief, housekeeper relief, relief for a person looking after children, additional personal relief for children, daughter's services relief and blind person's relief, on the basis that a taxpayer should be entitled to the unified relief in respect of himself together with a similar amount of relief in respect of his wife and each dependent.

Mr. Robert Sheldon,

pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 12th July 1976; Vol. 915, c. 104], gave the following information:

About £590, assuming that the age allowances were unchanged.