2 APRIL 1943, Page 14

EASTER OFFERINGS AND INCOME-TAX

Sza,—The Easter Offering is one of two things—either (t) a charitable gift from the parishioners or (2) a part of the annual stipend. As a parson I should much prefer to see it placed in the second category and so made subject to the incidence of income-tax. Surely the last thing that one would expeGt from the clergy, as a body, is that they should accept the cheap suggestions that are constantly being made for avoiding payment of income-tax—the last people who would attempt to " diddle " the Commissioners of Inland Revenue. Non tali auxilio!