Catalogue description Board of Inland Revenue: Directors of Statistics: Budget Papers

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Reference: IR 113
Title: Board of Inland Revenue: Directors of Statistics: Budget Papers
Description:

Papers of W.H. Coates and C.J. Gregg (Directors of Statistics and Intelligence, 1919-1925 and 1926-1930, respectively) and, in the main, relate to budget legislation and the study of proposals for consideration by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The series includes memoranda and statistics covering a wide range of financial matters, and papers arising from the preparation of budget estimates and legislation and the cost or yield of changes in taxation.

Date: 1919-1934
Arrangement:

Volumes are arranged in chronological order under the references and headings given to them by the department.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Inland Revenue, Statistics and Intelligence Division, 1919-1974

Physical description: 52 volume(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

The Statistics and Intelligence Division (renamed Statistics Division in 1975), which was set up in 1919, is responsible for the preparation of Budget estimates, for estimating the cost or yield of changes in taxation, for advising the board on budgetary issues primarily of a financial character, for the general statistical work of the department, including collaboration with the Treasury in the production of national income estimates and forecasts. Until 1963 it was responsible also for the management of the board's library (now the responsibility of Central Division) and the provision of an information service, particularly on foreign and Commonwealth taxation, now maintained by Policy Division.

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