1st Edition

British Budgets in Peace and War, 1932–1945

336 Pages

by Routledge

336 Pages

by Routledge

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First published in 1970, British Budgets in Peace and War, 1932–1945 examines the period from the depression through the limited recovery of the late thirties to World War II and its ending. The book takes an unusual angle, telling this story through the Budgets of the era. Through careful editing and selection, the author presents each Budget as the participants themselves experienced it,... Read more

Foreword Introduction Preface 1. The Finance Bill 1933: The Shadow of Snowden 2. The Finance Bill 1934: The Start of a Mission 3. The Finance Bill 1935: Mission Completed 4. The Finance Bill 1936: The Price of Defence 5. The Finance Bill 1937: The Master Bows Out 6. The Finance Bill 1938: Simon—A Tanner 7. The Finance Bill 1939: Undertones of War 8. The Finance Bills of 1940: The Foundations are Laid 9. The Finance Bill 1941: Kingsley, Kindersley and Keynes 10. The Finance Bill 1942: Return to Orthodoxy 11. The Finance Bill 1943: £16 millions a Day 12. The Finance Bill 1944: The Anderson Shelter 13. The End and the Beginning: The Income Tax Act and the Finance Bills (I) and (II) 1945 14. Retrospect and Prospect Appendix A Rates of Income Tax and Allowances 1932/33–1945/46 Appendix B Wartime Rates of Surtax Appendix C Summary of Expenditure and Revenue Appendix D Indirect Taxation