The Gazette 1924-27

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May, 1924.

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indicated in the letter of the Secretary of the Board of 25th February, viz. : " that in individual cases where the claimant is unable on account of distance or for some other sufficient reason to attend before one of the persons before whom the Board have authorised Income Tax declarations in the Irish Free State to be made, they will consider the facts with a view to allowing a declaration to be taken before a Com– missioner to administer oaths. They regret, however, that they are unable to grant a general authority that the declarations in question should be taken before such Commissioners.''

Meetings of the Council.

9th April. Sixteen Members present. Valuation Office. A letter in reply was read from the Secretary of the Valuation Office, assuring the Council as to the desire of the Com– missioner that the Department should facili– tate the public in every reasonable way in regard to the information they may require from the Valuation lists and maps; and that effective office arrangements have been made for expeditiously obtaining documents required, either to supply particulars of individual holdings or to enable copies to be ordered under the provisions of sec. 9 of 23 Vie., Cap. 4. British Income Tax. A further letter was read from the Secretary, Inland Revenue, Somerset House, in reply to the request of the Council that declarations of Free State Claimants for refunds of British Income Tax might be made before Commissioners to administer oaths, stating that in the view of the Board of Inland Revenue the convenience of the public should be fully met by the concession

30th April. Twenty-one Members present. Stop Orders.

A letter from a member was read in which it was suggested that in cases where prior to the destruction of the Four Courts a Stop Order had been recorded in the books of the Accountant-General, the holder of the Stop Order should be permitted to lodge with the Accountant-General a notice of the Order, accompanied by a plain copy of the order if forthcoming, and that thereupon the Accountant-General should enter in his