The Taxation of the United KingdomMacMillan, 1869 - 180 стор. |
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11 per cent a-year Abbey Town actual Taxation Alcohol Alcohol and Tobacco amount Appendix Assessed Taxes Average Duty Average per Family Brewers British Spirits burden calculation Capital centage CHAP CHAPTER charge Chicory consumer Consumption per head Corn Customs deduction diluted spirit direct Tax drink earnings estimated excess Excise following table gallons galls gross Income Income and Property Income Tax increase Inland Revenue inquiry Intemperate interest Ireland Land Tax landlord Legacy Duty less levied Licenses London Malt Manual Labour Class Middle Classes nation nearly owner paid paying Duty Poor Rate portion Probate Duty produced profit proportion quantity Railways Real Property rent Rental retail Scotland selling value Stamps Succession Duty sumption TAXES ON EXPENDITURE Taxes on Income Taxes per Family Tea Coffee tenant Tenant's half tion Total Consumption Total Per cent total Taxation towns Trades United Kingdom Upper and Middle week Wine СНАР
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Сторінка 11 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Сторінка 55 - 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.
Сторінка 13 - Every tax ought to be so contrived, as to take out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Сторінка 13 - Every tax ought to be levied at the time, and in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.
Сторінка 92 - Hear, hear!] -I speak in general terms. Indeed, I now remember that I myself had, about a fortnight ago, a letter addressed to me, complaining of the monstrous injustice and iniquity of the income tax, and proposing that, in consideration thereof, the Chancellor of the Exchequer should be publicly hanged.
Сторінка 55 - ... 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 20 - The Taxation of the United Kingdom," admits this p. 20. " One of the oldest and most simple definitions divides all taxes into the two heads of direct and indirect taxation ; direct taxes being those which are paid by the person himself, who is meant to be the real contributory, such as assessed taxes, and indirect being those which are paid by an intermediary, who reimburses himself from the real contributor, such as the customs and excise duties. But this definition cannot furnish us with a trustworthy...
Сторінка 85 - You may here get drunk for a penny, dead drunk for twopence, and have clean straw for nothing.
Сторінка 160 - The gin-palace allures its throng of monomaniacs. The Custom House officer takes toll at the door. The Excise officer stands beside the till, and seizes nearly half the price of every glass that is poured. Emaciated and in rags, the drunkard puts down the wages that should have supported his children, calling for glass after glass until his earnings are exhausted, and then staggers off to a poverty-stricken home to wreak his madness on his wife.
Сторінка 162 - ... class of property not more valuable and far more fleeting in its character ? I think the reason why I should object to a permanent re-imposition of the income-tax will now be obvious to the House. I should object to it with all the force I am capable of until the taxes which now exist are put on a satisfactory and honest footing, so that every man and every description of property may be called upon by the State in its just proportion to support the burdens and the necessities of the State.