6. I must also raise again the position of married women who are being encouraged to return to industry or to take wage earning employment for the first time. It is reported to me from Lancashire where women are urgently needed in the cotton industry that the liability on the husband to pay income tax on his wife's earnings if he has already exhausted the benefit of the personal allowances, definitely discourages married women from returning to work. Also it is bad psychology for the additional tax to be deducted wholly from the wife's wages so as to make it appear that the wife pays more than her husband in relation to her wages.
- Civil Defence Region
- Nationwide
- Collection ID
- CAB71
- Document Reference
- CAB 71/5/58
- Document Types
- Memorandum Statistical Publication
- File Reference
- CAB 71/5
- Former Department Reference
- LP(41) 214
- Identifier
- 10.1080/wtss.cab71.000005.058
- Keywords
- British Economy Construction Cotton Engineering Family Labour Supply Shipbuilding Statistics Taxation Textiles Wages
- Language
- English
- Locations Discussed
- Lancashire
- Organizations Discussed
- Inland Revenue Lord President's Committee Ministry of Labour National Arbitration Tribunal
- Pages
- 4
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Industry Infrastructure Domestic Life Wages Cost of Living
