The Land Tax: Or, How to Restore Forty Millions of State Rent to the Annual RevenueFinancial Reform Association, 1884 - 39 стор. |
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a-half per cent Adam Smith ALIENATION amount annual annum APPENDIX average Bank of England barons burden capital century Charles II Cobden Corn Laws cost Crown lands customs and excise Domesday Domesday Book duties England and Wales equitable estates Exchequer export feudal lord Financial Reform fraud fraudulent Free Trade funds further Goschen House of Commons Imperial Taxation falling imposed income tax increased indirect taxation industry injustice king king's kingdom knight labour Land Rent Land Tax Redemption landed interest landholders landlord Parliament landowners levied loans National Debt owners paid passed people's Percentage of Imperial personal property personalty Pitt Pitt's bill poor rate pound profits raised real property redeemed reign rent of land says scutage shewing shewn Simon de Montfort Sir John so-called Land Tax socage soil square miles standing army statute Tallages Taxes on Land tenants term Land Tax terra regis towns valuation wealth
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Сторінка 30 - As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. The wood of the forest, the grass of the field, and all the natural fruits of the earth, which, when land was in common, cost the labourer only the trouble of gathering them, come, even to him, to have an additional price fixed upon them.
Сторінка 9 - Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of parliament...
Сторінка 30 - He must then pay for the licence to gather them, and must give up to the landlord a portion of what his labour either collects or produces. This portion, or, what comes to the same thing, the price of this portion, constitutes the rent of land, and in the price of the greater part of commodities makes a third component part.
Сторінка 8 - An act for taking away the court of wards and liveries and tenures, in capite and by knights service, and purveyance, and for settling a revenue upon his majesty in lieu thereof...
Сторінка 30 - They are the only one of the three orders whose revenue costs them neither labour nor care, but comes to them, as it were, of its own accord, and independent of any plan or project of their own. That indolence, which is the natural effect of the ease and security of their situation, renders them too often, not only ignorant, but incapable of that application of mind which is necessary in order to foresee and understand the consequences of any public regulation.
Сторінка 37 - Smith in hand, and I would have a League for free trade in Land just as we had a League for free trade in Corn. You will find just the same authority in Adam Smith for the one as for the other ; and if it were only...
Сторінка 30 - ... of the inhabitants of some particular place, enables them to pay so much more than its real value for the ground which they build their houses upon ; or to make to its owner so much more than compensation for the loss which he might sustain by this use of it. Nothing can be more reasonable than that a fund which owes its existence to the good government of the state, should be taxed peculiarly, or should contribute something more than the greater part of other funds, towards the support of that...
Сторінка 30 - Every increase in the real wealth of the society, every increase in the quantity of useful labour employed within it, tends indirectly to raise the real rent of land.
Сторінка 24 - ... ever a new land-tax is imposed, it shall not be imposed upon those who have redeemed in any different proportion from that on those who have not redeemed. It would be necessary to provide that the amount of what may have been redeemed should be deducted from any new impost.
Сторінка 37 - ... revolutionary, Radical, Chartist notion, but taken up on politico-economic grounds, the agitation would be certain to succeed; and if you can apply free trade to land and to labour...