MONEY FOR INFORMATION
Last year £14,700 was paid by the British Treasury in rewards to informers-who helped the authorities to detect tax and import, duty dodgers. The disclosure is made in the report of the Select Committee on Public Accounts, which was recently issued. Sir Gilbert Upcott, the Government's Auditor-general, admitted that this was a very big increase on the amount paid in previous years. Some of the money was paid to civil servants and. the rest to private citizens who gave information to the Customs or Inland' Revenue authorities. Some of the informers received hundreds of pounds.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22721, 6 November 1935, Page 5
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98MONEY FOR INFORMATION Otago Daily Times, Issue 22721, 6 November 1935, Page 5
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