CO129-586-8 War Taxation 2-2-1940 - 11-5-1940 — Page 85

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