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find anybody with the necessary experience for the
investigation suggested by the Committee; but ?
perhaps we could first consult the Board of Inland
Revenue (? semi-officially) sending them a copy of
the despatch and the report, saying that Mr. Huxham
will not be available, mentioning Mr. Chambers,
and asking whether they know of a suitable person,
and we might write semi-officially to the Governor
referring to 2, 3 and 4 and saying that we are
doing this.
A.N. Galsworthy
28. 7. 39.
The immediate thing on this paper
which need not be delayed is to endeavour to
The selection of an
arrange for the income tax expert to visit
Hong Kong to conduct an enquiry into the
that possibility and method of introducing their form
of taxation into the Colony. I believe the
general policy of successive Secretaries of
State had been to favour income tax as the
fairest form of taxation in the Colonies, but in
Hong Kong as in the Straits Settlements there has
been strong and successful resistance to that form
as unsinted to
of taxation javierof the local circumstances,
and indeed it will certainly be found by the
investigator that the local problem is ent
bristling with complications.
The Hong Kong
Government