HC Deb 18 May 1988 vol 133 cc503-4W
Mr. Gordon Brown

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the tax liability in respect of the tax year 1988 of a married man aged 51 with no dependent children who is in receipt for that year of a salary from his employer of £1 million assuming he has a mortgage of £30,000, a BES investment of £40,000, an investment of £810,000 in a new enterprise zone unit trust of which 94 per cent. is attributable to building costs and where 50 per cent. of the purchase price is borrowed in circumstances where guaranteed rent receivable equals the interest outgoing, and who makes a contribution to a retirement annuity scheme amounting to £195,000.

Mr. Norman Lamont

[holding answer 12 April 1988]Liability to income tax in 1988–89 would be nil.