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TREASURY CHAMBERS,
WHITEHALL, S.W.1.
(Tel.: WHITEHALL 1234.)
122
22nd June, 1940.
Dear Caine,
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I am writing with reference to our telephone conversation today about the representative of the U.S. Treasury, Mr. A.J. Campbell, at Hong Kong who has received a demand for payment on the 1st July of Hong Kong Income Tax on his salary and allowances.
It is clear from Section 20 of the Finance Act 1930 that an American Citizen holding a similar appointment in this country would be exempt from U.K. Income Tax, and I understand orally from Hutcheon at the Foreign Office that, as the Americans always treat us a good deal more leniently in kindred matters than we treat Americans, it is most unlikely that British Subjects in a similar position in the U.S.A. would be liable to Federal Income Tax. American Embassy state emphatically that they are not.
The
In the circumstances I think
you would be justified in asking the Hong Kong Government to reconsider their
S. Caine, Esq.,
Colonial Office.
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