1. What amount of money has been expended by the National Service Board to date?

2. What amount has been paid to the directors as salary and expenses, respectively?

3. Are the directors of said Board still drawing their salaries?

1. Including expenditure on card registration and Publicity campaigns, to July 1, $134,081.35.

2. To Julyl: Directors'salaries, $19,131.71. Expenses: Travelling, $3,254.68; office staff, $6,687; premises, $1,514.90; temporary assistance, $777.60. Total expenses, $12,234.18. Total salaries and expenses, $31,365.89.

3. The following Directors of National Service draw no salaries: K. W. McKay,

Colonel Brock, J. H. Sherrard, Colonel Mignault, G. S. Campbell, L. P. D. Tilley, R. F. Green, Mark Irish.

The following directors have been drawing salaries at the rate of $250 per month: Captain Bowen, Colonel Chauveau, J. A. Macdonald, E. R. Chapman, A. L. Haining, Dr. Rutherford.

For the future no salary will be paid to any member of the board except upon the recommendation of the Director General.

I might be permitted to supplement the answer by saying that the staff of the Nation Service Board, at the head offices in Ottawa, have been, and still are, very actively engaged in the work of the Board and in any work that seems directly connected with the purpose for which the board was constituted. For example, a great deal of routine work of the office of Fuel Controller has, under an arrangement between the Director General of National Service and the Fuel Controller, been carried out by the staff of the National Service Board, and in that way additional expense to the country has been prevented. I understand also that

the members of the staff at the offices in Ottawa are co-operating with the Food Controller for any purposes in which he needs their assistance.

1. Who is in charge of collection of taxes from Companies in Canada? '

2. On what basis does he decide amount to be collected?

3. Before he decides, does he refer the matter to the Minister of Finance?

4. If so, on what basis does the minister decide?

5. Is the watered stock of a company taken into account?

6. Do some firms in Ottawa get rebates on their taxes?

7. If so, to wnat amount, and what are the names of the firms?

1. The Minister of Finance.

2. In accordance with the provisions of the Business Profits War Tax Act, 1916.

3. Assessments are made through the Commissioner of Taxation and other officers of the Department of Finance throughout the Dominion, subject to the general authority of the Minister of Finance.

4. Answered by No. 2.

5. Sec. 7, subsec. 5, chap. 11, 6-7 George V, provides that:

For the purposes of this Act the amount paid up on the capital stock of a company shall be the amount paid up in cash. Where stock was issued before the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, for any consideration other than cash, the fair value of such stock on such date shall be deemed to be the amount paid up on such stock; and where stock has been issued since the said first day of January for any consideration other than cash, the fair value of the stock at the date of its issue shall be deemed to be the amount paid up on such stock. In estimating the value of stock issued for any consideration other than cash, regard shall be had to the value of the assets, real and personal, movable and immovable, and to the liabilities of the company at the date as of which such value is to be determined. In no case shall the value of the stock be fixed at an amount exceeding the par value of such stock

6. No.

7. Answered by No. 6. ,

1. Is one, a Mr. Breadner, employed in the Finance Department?

2. If so, what is his salary?

3. What are his duties?

4. Does he decide by himself the basis of taxes to be paid by Incorporated Companies?

5. If not, does the Minister of Finance make the decision in every case?

Sir THOMAS W'HITE:

1. Yes.

2. Five thousand dollars per annum.

3. Commissioner of taxation.

4. Assessments are made through the Commissioner of Taxation and other officers of the Department of Finance throughout the Dominion, subject to the general authority of the Minister of Finance.

5. Answered by No. 4.

Mr. KYTE:

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1. On what date was George Black appointed Commissioner of thd Yukon?

2. What is the rate of salary and the total amount received by him since date of his appointment?

3. What amount has he received for allowances or expenses in addition to his salary?

1. February 1, 1912.

2. Salary from 1st February, 1912, to 14th October, 1916, $6,000 per year, and from 15th October, 1916, $3,000 per year; total salary received to 30th June, 1917, $30,362.90.

3. Living allowance, $28,225.81; travelling expenses, $3,644.15.