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But surely it is felmans
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an income tax
'im HK,"
that it is not contemplated that he sh" necessarily
Government has made a semi-official direct
approach to Mr. Huxham, but it has been
ascertained that it is not possible for him to be
made available. He has suggested to Mr.Caine that the services of Mr. Chambers of the Infand
Revenue Department should be utilised
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suggest that
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approve in principle the idea of introducing an income tax in Hong Kong and that a suitable
investigator should be selected to investigate
the practicability of a scheme for the purpose.
I should be inclined to write an official letter
to the Board of Inland Revenue, enclosing a copy of
No.1. and the printed report of the Taxation Committee which is enclosed, and that we should accompany
this with a semi-official letter referring to the
suggestion that the services of Mr. Chambers (now in India) might be secured and to the apparent
impossibility of his being made available at any
rate until December 1940.
In the official letter we should say present proporal i confined to ith that the eateryalistatav antanderthabtie
question
of the visit by an exput tork to the
H wisit of a suitable expertis
by that the,
purpose of conducting an aging in 10 in fearthly of intrancing
expand being invited to accept on the completion
of his report wwww a period of service in
Hong Kong for the purpose of supervising any
Department which might be set up as the result of shv his report btwunotray.
We might
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ask them if they can recommend an officer for the
He muncation ek investigation, to advise us what terms of employment
etc. it would be necessary for the Government of
Hong