The Queen's Taxes: An Inquiry Into the Amount, Incidence and Economic Results, of the Taxation of the United Kingdom, Direct and IndirectLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1870 - 258 oldal |
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208. oldal - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as Little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
208. oldal - Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.
115. oldal - The ordinary progress of a society which increases in wealth, is at all times tending to augment the income of landlords; to give them both a greater amount and a greater proportion of the wealth of the community, independently of any trouble or outlay incurred by themselves.
136. oldal - No part of a person's expenditure is a better criterion of his means, or bears, on the whole, more nearly the same proportion to them.
133. oldal - For every inhabited dwelling house which, with the household and other offices, yards, and gardens therewith occupied and charged, is or shall be worth the rent of twenty pounds or upwards by the year...
204. oldal - Upon every public Office or Employment of Profit, and upon every Annuity, Pension, or Stipend payable by Her Majesty or out of the public Revenue of the United Kingdom...
133. oldal - And also where any such dwellinghouse shall be occupied by any person who shall be duly licensed by the laws in force to sell therein by retail beer, ale, wine or other liquors, although the room or rooms thereof in which any such liquors shall be exposed to sale, sold, drunk or consumed shall not be such shop or warehouse as aforesaid ; And also where any such dwellinghouse shall be a farmhouse occupied by a tenant or farm servant, and bond fide used for the purposes of husbandry only, There shall...
200. oldal - In the case of ironworks, gasworks, salt springs or works, alum mines or works, waterworks, streams of water, canals, inland navigations, docks, drains or levels, fishings, rights of markets and fairs, tolls, railways and other ways, bridges, ferries, and other concerns of the like nature...
229. oldal - They are butter, cheese, a little meat, bacon, lard, candles, soap, and a little tobacco. Hardly any one of those articles is free from being taxed. Let us see what is the influence of taxation on that class of the community. It is inevitable, with a system of indirect taxation, that they must pay heavily; but I know, if the burden presses unjustly upon them, it is from no want of sympathy on the part of the gentlemen of England; it is, however, inevitable: we must raise a great part of our taxation...