§ Mr. Croninasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if he will have it made clear on the notes accompanying tax returns for the self-employed and the higher paid employees that if a married woman living with her husband opts for separate assessment certain tax allowances will be divided between the married woman and her husband, and also the nature of these allowances;
(2)if he will give increased publicity to the option that married women have to pay their own tax and fill in their own tax return;
(3)if he will arrange to have printed on the tax return form P1 the option married women have to pay their own tax and fill in their own tax return, and to share as a result certain tax allowances;
(4)what consideration he has given to making it compulsory for all married 644W divisions and sub-divisions of manufactures are too uncertain to warrant their compilation.
women living with their husbands and earning or receiving income liable to taxation to complete their own tax returns on their own incomes;
(5)if he will arrange for tax rebates payable on the incomes of married women living with their husbands, as a result of a wrong PAYE coding, to be paid directly to the married woman concerned instead of to her husband;
(6)what consideration he has given to changing the wording of tax return forms to avoid the impression of sexual discrimination;
(7)what proportion of women in paid employment and liable to income tax is married;
(8)if he will arrange for rebates payable on tax deducted from the incomes of married women living with their husbands to be paid directly to the married women concerned where there is separate taxation of wife's earnings as opposed to separate assessment.
§ Mr. Robert SheldonI will let my hon. Friend have a reply as soon as possible.