Local Taxation: a Criticism of Fallacies: And a Summary of FactsP.S. King, 1876 - 162 стор. |
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... consolidated fund would not relieve the ratepayers , it would merely deceive them . وو In his calculations of the incidence of imperial taxation Mr. Baxter adopts the figures that are given by Mr. Goschen in his report ( p . 30 ) as to ...
... consolidated fund would not relieve the ratepayers , it would merely deceive them . وو In his calculations of the incidence of imperial taxation Mr. Baxter adopts the figures that are given by Mr. Goschen in his report ( p . 30 ) as to ...
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... Consolidated Fund may not , after all , be of real advantage to ratepayers . The writer who expressed this opinion was no other than Mr. Baxter himself , in his work on The " Taxation of the United Kingdom . " That the proposals of Sir ...
... Consolidated Fund may not , after all , be of real advantage to ratepayers . The writer who expressed this opinion was no other than Mr. Baxter himself , in his work on The " Taxation of the United Kingdom . " That the proposals of Sir ...
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... consolidated fund , and a measure was passed empowering the government to lend money for the improvement of land at a low rate of interest . No such privilege is enjoyed by merchants , manufacturers , artisans , or peasant proprietors ...
... consolidated fund , and a measure was passed empowering the government to lend money for the improvement of land at a low rate of interest . No such privilege is enjoyed by merchants , manufacturers , artisans , or peasant proprietors ...
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... funds were under the management and control of twenty different local authorities ... consolidated audit of all local government accounts , a measure conducing to efficiency and preventing the possibility of sums struck out of one account ...
... funds were under the management and control of twenty different local authorities ... consolidated audit of all local government accounts , a measure conducing to efficiency and preventing the possibility of sums struck out of one account ...
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... grants from the Consolidated Fund on account of the impetus they would give to waste and extravagance . These plans being rejected , they offered to meet the difficulty by the surrender of the house tax to the local authorities . Such ...
... grants from the Consolidated Fund on account of the impetus they would give to waste and extravagance . These plans being rejected , they offered to meet the difficulty by the surrender of the house tax to the local authorities . Such ...
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Сторінка 31 - ... /Suppose that there is a kind of income which constantly tends to increase, without any exertion or sacrifice on the part of the owners: those owners constituting a class in the community, whom the natural course of things progressively enriches, consistently with complete passiveness on their own part.
Сторінка 31 - ... part. In such a case, it would be no violation of the principles on which private property is grounded, if the state should appropriate this increase of wealth, or part of it, as it arises. This would not properly be taking anything from anybody; it would merely be applying an accession of wealth, created by circumstances, to the benefit of society, instead of allowing it to become an unearned appendage to the riches of a particular class.
Сторінка 65 - ... against ripping up the subject of taxation. If they want another League, at the death of this one — if they want another organisation, and a motive — for you cannot have these organisations without a motive and principle — then let them force the middle and industrious classes of England to understand how they have been cheated, robbed, and bamboozled upon the subject of taxation...
Сторінка 66 - ... in the pound of the yearly rateable value of their rental, as it was worth to let for, and then stopped the progress of the rent by a law making the valuation final; that the land has gone on increasing ten-fold in many parts of Scotland, and five-fold in many parts of England, while the land tax has remained the same as it was 150 years ago; * * * if they force these things to be understood, they will be making as rueful a bargain as they have already made by resisting the abolition of the Corn...
Сторінка 65 - I verily believe, if you were to bring forward the history of taxation in this country for the last 15o years, you will find as black a record against the landowners as even in the Corn Law itself.
Сторінка 28 - This freedom of interior commerce, the effect of the uniformity of the system of taxation, is perhaps one of the principal causes of the prosperity of Great Britain...
Сторінка 66 - ... houses from taxes, their tenants' horses from taxes, their dogs from taxes, their draining-tiles from taxes — if they force these things to be understood, they will be making as rueful a bargain as they have already made by resisting the abolition of the Corn-Law.
Сторінка 65 - Corn-law itself. I warn them against ripping up the subject of taxation. If they want another League, at the death of this one — if they want another organisation, and a motive — for you cannot have these organisations without a motive and principle — then let them force the middle and industrious classes of England to understand how they have been cheated, robbed, and bamboozled...
Сторінка 46 - Goschen has employed in another connection : " a chaos as regards authorities, a chaos as regards rates and a worse chaos than all as regards areas.
Сторінка 140 - DIRECT and INDIRECT TAXATION, and of OTHER SOURCES of RECEIPTS, for the purposes of LOCAL EXPENDITURE, in each DIVISION of the UNITED KINGDOM, in the Year 1873-74.