Suggested reply for Conservative candidates to a question on the abolition of the entertainments tax.

Table showing the changes in rateable values and rates between 1928/9 and 1929/30 in various county boroughs and county districts.

Minute by Sir Alfred Hurst to James Grigg on the proposed scheme of rating reform, particularly as it would effect London and parishes in the Epping Division of Essex.

Note from [WSC] to [James Grigg] asking for clarification of figures on the rating of places in his constituency [Epping, Essex] produced by Sir Alfred Hurst.

Letter from [WSC] to Lord Balfour [earlier Arthur Balfour] reporting that the Government's surplus for the ending financial year will be greater than forecast and will go towards the remission of rates. Carbon typescript copy.

Amendments and explanatory memoranda relating to the Finance Bill.

The Finance Bill.

Letter from Ian Colvin, (the Morning Post, Tudor Street, London), to WSC, giving the source of a quotation by Austen Chamberlain [former Secretary of State for India] about how foolish Lancashire would be to "boggle at a paltry four per cent India tariff against cotton imports", which was said in the House of Commons, 14 March 1917.

Letter from Ian Colvin, (the Morning Post, Tudor Street, London), to WSC, on the Times report of a deputation from Lancashire which met Austen Chamberlain, [former Secretary of State for India], 13 March 1917 on the subject of Indian duties on cotton.

Letter from Harold Robinson, [Chairman, Lancashire Group, India Defence League], to WSC, enclosing a reprint of his article from the Oldham Chronicle, 30 March 1935, "Lancashire Demands a Square Deal - Remove the Surcharges in Indian Tariff on Cotton Goods"; reporting that the article had been issued to all Lancashire MPs.

Letter from Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, (98 Elm Park Gardens, London SW10) to WSC, enclosing a memorandum written after the Burma debate in the House of Commons, on the continuation of high duties on British cotton goods in Burma [later Myanmar], in spite of the proposed separation from India.

Letter from Lord Derby (Derby House, Stratford Place, [London]) to WSC urging him to reconsider the matter of the betting tax because it is doing the Conservatives great electoral damage.

Letter from WSC to "Eddie" [Lord Derby] on the political difficulties caused to the Government by the betting tax. Typescript copy. Carbon copy at CHAR 2/164/7.

Letter from Lord Derby (Derby House, Stratford Place, [London]) to WSC agreeing that the Labour Party have acted foolishly in welcoming the support of the bookmakers over the betting tax and expressing confidence that WSC will do his best to deal with the unpopularity of the tax among the Government's supporters.

Letter from Beatrice Webb (later Lady Passfield), 41 Grosvenor Road, Westminster Embankment, London, to WSC, on working class feeling against taxes on food and its relation to the growth of socialism, recommending that he should consult Eduard Bernstein of Berlin.

Copy of a letter from WSC (Treasury Chambers) to [4th Lord Salisbury, earlier Lord Cranborne, Lord Privy Seal] in response to [Salisbury's] paper including: discussion of capitalism, the effect of death duties to mitigate against the creation of the "idle rich", and his belief that the rich are already taxed as much as possible.Unsigned typescript.

Copy of a minute from WSC to Sir Richard Hopkins [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue] asking his "Committee of Five" to consider a revolutionary scheme to separate coprporate and investment income, treat earned income more favourably, and levy income and super tax on investment income by means of a national register. He ends by summarising the advantages of this scheme and discussing the establishment of the register.Carbon typescript.

Carbon copy of WSC's proposal for the betting tax.