§ Mr. Wakehamasked 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. Wakehamasked 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.