From ‘Taxing Wages and War Profits’, The Spectator, 19 June 1915:
Tax is growing much too complicated, and the multiplication of exemptions in the last few years has led to an enormous increase of clerical work at Somerset House. At the same time, the Government have never yet had the courage to carry out the ideal of compelling a return from every individual in the kingdom. Yet practically there are few people who do not have to make such a return either for the purposes of Super Tax, or in order to secure one or other of the numerous exemptions now operative. It would be far better to face the whole problem boldly, to compel a return from every individual, and then to grade the tax scientifically.
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