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Travel Expenses

Volume 918: debated on Tuesday 2 November 1976

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asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will seek to make the cost of regular travelling to work by rail an allowable deduction from income for calculation of liability for personal tax.

pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 1st November 1976], gave the following answer:I do not think it would be right to single out this particular form of personal expenditure for tax relief.