Child Tax Allowances

HC Deb 28 June 1978 vol 952 cc589-90W

Mr. Ralph Howell

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer to what level

tax excluding local income tax at a rate of 50 per cent. in each of the member States of the EEC and in Sweden, the United States of America, Canada, Australia and Japan.

Mr. Robert Sheldon

The information requested is given in the table below:

child tax allowances would have to be raised in order to maintain their 1976–77 parity with single person's tax allowance; and how many families with dependent children would be taken out of the tax net by an increase of this amount.

Mr. Robert Sheldon

£402, £449 or £489. If child tax allowances were raised to these levels, there would at 1978–79 income levels be some 400,000 fewer taxpayers liable to tax.