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Finance Act

Great Britain · Government / Labour Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

10Records
1946–1975Date range
4Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1946

Hugh Dalton1946

London · Government / Labour Party Government

Finance Act 1946 sets taxation and fiscal policy for postwar recovery

1947

Hugh Dalton1947

London · Government / Labour Party Government

Finance Act 1947 sets taxation and fiscal measures during the postwar economic crisis

1948

Stafford Cripps1948

London · Government / Labour Party Government

Finance Act 1948 sets taxation and economic measures during austerity

1949

Stafford Cripps1949

London · Government / Labour Party Government

Finance Act 1949 sets taxation and revenue measures after devaluation pressures

1950

Hugh Gaitskell1950

London · Government / Labour Party Government

Finance Act 1950 sets taxation and fiscal policy for the later Attlee government

1951

Hugh Gaitskell1951

London · Government / Labour Party Government

Finance Act 1951 sets taxation and revenue measures during the final Attlee administration

1968

Harold Wilson26 July 1968

London · Government / Labour Party Government

Finance Act 1968 gives statutory effect to the main taxation measures announced in the March Budget.

1969

Harold Wilson25 July 1969

London · Government / Labour Party Government

Finance Act 1969 implements further tax changes intended to restrain demand and strengthen the external accounts.

1974

Harold Wilson31 July 1974

London · Government / Labour Party Government

Finance Act 1974 receives Royal Assent, implementing tax changes from Healey's first Budget.

1975

Harold Wilson13 March 1975

London · Government / Labour Party Government

Finance Act 1975 receives Royal Assent, altering duties and public revenue law.

Names involved

Harold WilsonHugh DaltonHugh GaitskellStafford Cripps

Provenance

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