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MR. PIKE PEASE
(Darlington)
To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the approximate average rate of income-tax paid by persons earning less than £700 per annum. (Answered by Mr. Asquith.) As no general distinction has hitherto been made for the purposes of income-tax between "earned" and "unearned" incomes, there are no statistics upon which a calculation of this kind could be based.