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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 14

Deficient Returns under Schedule D

page 179

Deficient Returns under Schedule D.

The following cases, selected from a large number, will afford some idea of the great loss sustained by the revenue by reason of deficient returns.

Returned at Proved to be
Nil. £7,217
£1,925 3,485
4,500 8,000
4,500 9,366
140,207 184,224
76,420 95,627
20,612 40,000
239,334 287,780
190,513 254,150
Nil 5,235
7,068 18,272
120,000 178,300
104,565 130,411
14,596 25,000
7,675 15,000
7,500 12,000
104,618 126,025
6,209 10,000
17,500 22,000
£4,160 £10,000
1,000 5,000
5,000 10,000
750 2,000
1,700 5,500
6,000 10,000
13,957 24,000
3,000 8,000
1,950 6,000
3,500 16,000
1,800 5,000
25,000 35,000
2,500 8,000
1,450 9,000
7,500 11,500
18,249 29,238
250 3,500
16,330 22,000
Total Returned £1,186,838
Instead of £1,650,880

It is impossible to expect any practical steps from aroused public opinion and criticism in these matters so long as the names of the parties are screened from exposure. The Inland Revenue officers are not allowed to divulge the names of even parties detected in the grossest frauds. In the Reports of the Department they have to carefully avoid giving any clue that might identify these respectable criminals, and even in the worst cases ready payment is made of £100 fine, and appeals to court are avoided thereby.