COPY.
CONFIDENTIAL.
ear Chambers,
173
Colonial Secretary's Office,
HONG KONG,
17th July, 1939.
Huxham has sent to me a copy of your letter
The present
of 28th June, on the subject of your possibly undertaking
an inquiry into Income Tax in this Colony.
position is that we have put it up to the Colonial
Office for approval in principle, and if that approval is
given, to open negotiations with the Inland Revenue
Department at home. As I do not quite know how far
they have proceeded I cannot, at this stage, do any
more than send home semi-officially copies of this
correspondence for their information.
Yours sincerely,
Sd. S. Caine.
S.P. Chambers, Esq.,
Income Tax Department,
Simla,
India.