T. BLACK, ESQ.
1
Downing Street,
29
London, S.W.1.
21st March, 1940.
94
My dear Tom,
In continuation of my letter of the 13th
March about the War Revenue Bill, I have just had a
talk with the Inland Revenue man principally concerned
with Colonial income taxes and two members of the
Income Tax Inspectorate. On the whole their reaction
is definitely reassuring and they went so far as to
say that they thought that Huxham was trying to make
your flesh creep.
They recognised that there are administrative
difficulties in limiting the tax to profits made in the
Colony, but it is probable that on the other side some
administrative difficulties will be avoided altogether
by that, and even if the balance from the administrative
point of view is on the wrong side, we have to take
account of the political desirability of meeting the
opposition as far as possible.
It is not the case that
the