Oxford University Press's failed 1944 application for exemption from wartime E.P.T. (Excess Profits Tax)

13th June, 1944

Dear Vice-Chancellor,

Thank you for your letter of 10th June.

When you first spoke to me I wondered whether there was a case for reviewing your contract with the Stationery Office but obviously this would not help. The question of the incidence of E.P.T. upon a peculiar institution like the Clarendon Press is one on which it is for the Inland Revenue Department to advise the Chancellor and I am asking them to look into it.

Yours sincerely

D. A. Barlow

The Vice-Chancellor,
Oriel College,
Oxford