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Saturday, February 28, 1976

3RD INLAND REVENUE ORDINANCE REVIEW COMMITTED

A Government spokesman announced this evening that the Third

Inland Revenue Ordinance Review Committee would start work on the 15th June

next and would submit its report and recommendations to the Governor within

six months from that date.

The Chairman of the Committee is to be Mr. J.A. Johnstone who was,

until September 1973, a Commissioner of Inland Revenue in the United Kingdom,

He has a wide knowledge of income tax law and practice and, in recent years,

has specialised in the field of comparative taxation. In addition, he was

secretary to the 1955 Royal Commission on the Taxation of Profits and

Income (the Radcliffe Commission). Since retiring from the Board of Inland

Revenue, he has been adviser to a United Kingdom Association of Building

Trade Employers.

The Secretary will be Mr. A.D. Duffy, 0.B.E., who served in the

Inland Revenue Department for 25 years, He was Commissioner of Inland

Revenue between 1963 and 1972 and was also a member of the Second Inland

Revenue Ordinance Review Committee which was appointed in 1966.

The part-time members of the Committee are

The Honourable G.W. Lee., 0.B.E.

Member of Legislative Council;

Mrs. Susan Yuen, O.B.E., of the

Federation of Hong Kong Industries and

the Hong Kong Management Association;

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Mr. K.A. Miller., C.A.; who was, until recently,

a practising member of the accountancy profession and

is now in private business in Hong Kong;

Dr. Y.C. Jao, Senior Lecturer in Economics

at the University of Hong Kong.

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