Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Colonial Empire. – in the House of Commons at on 25 October 1939.
Mr Benjamin Riley
, Dewsbury
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the present scale of income taxation in operation in Jamaica; whether, in addition to the standard Income Tax scale there is a Super-tax; and, further, what was the total amount of the income of persons in Jamaica liable for Income Tax assessment; and the total receipt of standard and Super-tax for the last completed financial year?
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
