Board of Inland Revenue: Directors of Statistics: Budget Papers

IR 113

1919-1934

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.

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

Public Record(s)

English

52 volume(s)

Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated

Topics

Government finances

Taxation

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.