On Taxation: How it is Raised and how it is ExpendedJ. W. Parker, 1860 - 255 pagina's |
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Pagina 12
... ships and foreign trade , Parliament granted to Edward subsidies on wine and merchandize . A poil- tax was resorted to during the reign of Richard II . , consisting of three groats on every person , male or female , above fifteen years ...
... ships and foreign trade , Parliament granted to Edward subsidies on wine and merchandize . A poil- tax was resorted to during the reign of Richard II . , consisting of three groats on every person , male or female , above fifteen years ...
Pagina 16
... ships which were certain to ensue . Year by year we labour to find means whereby some sources of revenue may prove more productive ; retrenchments are made , and a handsome surplus is at last secured . Flushed with prosperity , the ...
... ships which were certain to ensue . Year by year we labour to find means whereby some sources of revenue may prove more productive ; retrenchments are made , and a handsome surplus is at last secured . Flushed with prosperity , the ...
Pagina 24
... ship of fortune is fearlessly dashed through the storms and gales of adversity ; and acts of daring , from which the timid adventurer would shrink , become the vehicles of colossal treasures . Here and there a bark is foundered ; often ...
... ship of fortune is fearlessly dashed through the storms and gales of adversity ; and acts of daring , from which the timid adventurer would shrink , become the vehicles of colossal treasures . Here and there a bark is foundered ; often ...
Pagina 61
... ships , the collection of light dues , & c . Her Majesty's Commissioners of Customs , in their report for 1858 , said , ' The unrivalled elasticity and rapid expansion of the commerce of the country furnish grounds for the warmest ...
... ships , the collection of light dues , & c . Her Majesty's Commissioners of Customs , in their report for 1858 , said , ' The unrivalled elasticity and rapid expansion of the commerce of the country furnish grounds for the warmest ...
Pagina 103
... ship is the first implement of British industry , and placed as it is in competition with the whole world , and almost defied by the rapid increase of American ship- ping , it is all important to diminish as much as possible the charges ...
... ship is the first implement of British industry , and placed as it is in competition with the whole world , and almost defied by the rapid increase of American ship- ping , it is all important to diminish as much as possible the charges ...
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amount of revenue annual annuities annum army average beer bills Britain British burden capital carriages cent CHAPTER charged civil list coffee colonies commerce considerable Consolidated Fund consumed consumption cost Customs duties England estimated Exchequer Excise expenditure exports favoured finances foreign manufactures France French fund gallons granted Hackney carriages head House of Commons immense important imposed income tax increase indirect taxes industry interest Ireland labour land less levied linen loans Lords materials ment middle classes national debt navy nigh officers paid Parliament Paymaster-General peace persons political population portion present produce proportion protection public revenue quantity railways raised rate of duty reduced reign Richard II Russia salaries Scotland ships silk Sir Robert Peel Sovereign Spain spirits stamp duties sugar taxation tion tobacco trade treaty United Kingdom upper classes upwards voted wealth whilst wine wool woollen manufactures
Populaire passages
Pagina 28 - 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.
Pagina 178 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Pagina 244 - King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : — GRANTS OUT OF CONSOLIDATED FUND 1.
Pagina 238 - No scutage or aid shall be imposed in our kingdom, unless by the general council of our kingdom ; except for ransoming our person, making our eldest son a knight, and once for marrying our eldest daughter; and for these there shall be paid a reasonable aid.
Pagina 89 - It is true I cannot prevent the introduction of the flowing poison ; gain-seeking and corrupt men will for profit and sensuality, defeat my wishes ; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people.
Pagina 131 - Taxes upon the sale of land fall altogether upon the seller. The seller is almost always under the necessity of selling, and must, therefore, take such a price as he can get. The buyer is scarce ever under the necessity of buying, and will, therefore, only give such a price as he likes. He considers what the land will cost him in tax and price together. The more he is obliged to pay in the way 01 tax, the less he will be disposed to give in the way of price.
Pagina 41 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and 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.
Pagina 239 - That levying money for or to the use of the crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Pagina 132 - For the general prosperity, there cannot be too much facility given to the conveyance and exchange of all kinds of property, as it is by such means that capital of every species is likely to find its way into the hands of those, who will best employ it in increasing the productions of the country. " Why,
Pagina 222 - The expenses of a war,' said Mr. Gladstone, ' are the moral check which it has pleased the Almighty to impose upon the ambition and the lust of conquest that are inherent in so many nations.