An Act to increase the Customs and Excise duties on beer and tobacco, the Customs duty on hydrocarbon oils, and the entertainments duty; to increase the standard rate of income tax for the year 1931-32, and the higher rates of income tax for the year 1930-31; to amend the Income Tax Acts in so far as they relate to certain reliefs and the tax payable by persons carrying on a trade consisting wholly or partly in dealing in securities; to amend section thirty-six of the Finance Act, 1931, and the law relating to the National Debt; and to make provision for certain matters connected with the matters aforesaid.
[5th October 1931.]
Most Gracious Sovereign
WE, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary supplies to defray Your Majesty’s public expenses, and making an addition to the public revenue, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and to grant unto your Majesty the several duties hereinafter mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—