New Clause. — (Exemption from Tax for Annuities Paid by Way of Compen Sation for National Socialist Persecution and Loss of Office Thereby.)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 18 Mehefin 1964.

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

Photo of Mr John Boyd-Carpenter Mr John Boyd-Carpenter , Kingston upon Thames 12:00, 18 Mehefin 1964

The important point which my hon. Friends are on relates to the action of the German Government or, as my hon. Friend has just added, the German court. If it is a fact that this man was awarded the wrong form of compensation by the German court or the German Government—that to which under German law he would not be entitled—then the remedy seems to be to approach the German Government and have the matter righted. My information does not square with that of my hon. Friend the Member for Selly Oak but he may well be right and I may well be wrong. If he likes to discuss the matter with me I am prepared to consider whether in the circumstances an approach should be made to the German Government. I think that that, rather than create an obvious anomaly in our tax law, would be the right way to handle it.