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(Untitled), 15 Apr 1931

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/397B/207-208

Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to James Grigg [Chairman, Board of Inland Revenue], on the tax situation of lecturers, arguing that lecturing was an entirely different activity to writing, "the art of delivering a lecture is not literary but histrionic in its character. It is a physical and psychic exertion of which most literary men or journalists would be incapable", concluding that a hypothetical individual would be ill advised to undertake a lecture tour as the receipts would raise the rate of tax on the rest of his income, and he would receive little more than two fifths himself. [Carbon].

Dates

  • Creation: 15 Apr 1931

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright: Winston Churchill

Extent

2 folio(s)

Language of Materials

English