11 JUNE 1921, Page 17

INCOME TAX.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.")

SIR,—Under the new fanciful method oL assessing the Income Tax, and allowances upon it, I pay between £30 and 240 more

than I did last year under the old plan upon practically the same income of under £1,000 a year. Did the authorities mean to raise the tax without saying so, or is it simply that they did not know what they were doing? I am probably not a unique

SUFFERER.