Work for Parliament
The essential fact about the new session of Parliament, which opens on Tuesday, is that it will see the Budget introduced. Speculations on that absorbing subject, particularly on the vital question of whether the Chan- cellor is capable of the adventurous stroke of reducing the Income Tax, arc already rife, but there is little purpose in pursuing them further here. The immediate business before the House is consideration of the Housing Bill, the Rents Bill and an Unemployment Insurance Bill based on the Royal Commission's findings. Such parts of the Salter Report as the Government is credited with adopting may need legislation, but the major recommendations of the Report affecting taxation will, no doubt, be reserved for Mr. Chamberlain when he introduces the Budget. One flagrant anomaly, at least, whereby a 20-ton vehicle pays no higher licence- duty than one of five tons, in spite of the havoc it works with the roads, is pretty certain to be corrected. A Tote Club Suppression Bill is possible, but the Grey- hound Track question is likely to be left till the final report of the Commission on Lotteries and Betting is
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