Catalogue description Board of Inland Revenue: Statistics and Intelligence Division: Correspondence and Papers

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Reference: IR 64
Title: Board of Inland Revenue: Statistics and Intelligence Division: Correspondence and Papers
Description:

These files cover the whole range of the Statistics and Intelligence Division's work including budget estimates, liaison with the Central Statistical Office and statistical investigations relating to personal and company taxation, death duties, taxation of building societies, superannuation funds, etc.

Date: 1858-1977
Arrangement:

Files are arranged in chronological order up to piece number 103 and then in alphabetical sub-heading order. An index precedes the main list.

Related material:

Other statistics of the Board of Inland Revenue are to be found in IR 16

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

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

Board of Inland Revenue, Statistics Division, 1974-

Physical description: 533 file(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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