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The taxation of paper in Great Britain 1643-1861 : a history and documentation / H. Dagnall.
Dagnall, H.Date: 1998
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An impartial inquiry into the present state of parochial registers; charitable funds; taxation and parish rates.
Lucas, James, -1814.Date: 1791
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An Essay on the inequality of our present taxes, particularly the land-tax; and on the means to raise, by an equal, easy taxation, the necessary supplies within the year.
Date: 1746
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Thoughts on taxation: in the course of which the policy of a tax on income is impartially investigated.
Date: 1798
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The objections to the taxation of our American colonies, by the legislature of Great Britain, briefly consider'd.
Jenyns, Soame, 1704-1787.Date: [1765]
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Essays on social security and taxation : Gustav von Schmoller and Adolph Wagner reconsidered / edited by Jürgen G. Backhaus.
Date: 1997
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Letters on excessive taxation. From a: philanthrophist, to His Royal Higheess George prince of Wales, the Right Honourable William Pitt, First lord of the Treasury, and chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer; and several other Noblemen of the first distinction: with an address to the people of Great-Britain.
Philanthropist.Date: M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]
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Scientific endowments versus increased taxation : (being new neighbourly devices for securing the juster distribution of wealth) / by Elliott E. Mills.
Mills, Elliott E.Date: 1911
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Considérations sur les effets de l'impôt dans les différens modes de taxation. Précédées de quelques notions essentielles, sur les époques les plus instructives de la société. Par le marquis de Casaux, De La Société Royale De Londres, Et De Celle D'Agriculture De Florence.
Casaux, Charles, marquis de, 1727-1796.Date: M.DCC.XCIV. [1794]
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A letter to Edmund Burke, Esq, controverting the principles of American government, laid down in his lately published speech on American taxation, delivered in the House of Commons, on the 19th of April, 1774.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]
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The speech of the Right Hon. John Wilkes, Esq. Lord Mayor of the City of London, in the House of Commons, on Wednesday, February, 8, 1775, relative to a motion made by Lord North, on the American taxation bills.
Wilkes, John, 1727-1797.Date: [1775]
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The speech of the Right Hon. John Wilkes, Esq. Lord Mayor of the City of London, in the House of Commons, on Wednesday, February, 8, 1775. Relative to a motion made by Lord North, on the American taxation bills.
Wilkes, John, 1727-1797.Date: 1775]
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Tyranny the worst taxation; a poetical epistle to the right honourable Lord N----, ostensible Prime M-r. By the author of Royal Perseverance.
Author of Royal perseverance.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]
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Income Tax: correspondence and forms relating to exemption of Society from taxation, and question of its refund on subscriptions Society as a Charity
Date: 1929-1945Reference: WTI/RST/A/24
Part of: Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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Hints towards an improved system of taxation, extending to all persons in exact proportion to their property, and without any kind of investigation or disclosure of their circumstances. With an appendix, Recommending a Plan, arising from this System, for the Institution of a National Bank.
Date: 1798
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A guide to the people of Great Britain, for a fair and equal representation and taxation. With a map of England and Wales, divided into districts. And also a variety of plans for paying off the national debt. Addressed to the socity for constitutional information.
Phelps, William.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]
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A Letter to the inhabitants of Cork: in which it is demonstrated that they pay treble taxes, from the present unjust mode of taxation. By many citizens.
Date: [1791]
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Second Report of the Committee appointed by the Right Honourable the Governour of Bengal for the Establishment of a Fever Hospital, and for inquiring into local management and taxation in Calcutta.
Bengal (India). Committee upon the Fever Hospital and Municipal Improvements.Date: 1846
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Boston, Massachusetts: John Malcolm, a customs official, is lowered by ropes from his house on to a cart and tarred and feathered by a crowd protesting against taxation. Engraving by F. Godefroy, 1784.
Godefroy, François, 1743?-1819Date: [1794]Reference: 43311i
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Free and candid remarks on the plan of taxation, as resolved on by the Eau-Brink Cut Committee, at their late meeting held at March, in the isle of Ely.
Date: [1794?]
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Abridgement of the Report of the Committee appointed by the Right Honourable the Governour of Bengal for the Establishment of a Fever Hospital, and for inquiring into local management and taxation in Calcutta.
Bengal (India). Committee upon the Fever Hospital and Municipal Improvements.Date: 1840
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An Address to the people called Quakers, concerning the manner in which they treated Timothy Davis, for writing and publishing a piece on taxation; and also concerning the treatment many others met with from them, for joining with him, since he was disowned, in the acts of public worship. Signed in behalf of the committee who prepared this address, by Joseph Taber.
Date: 1784
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Three national grievances. The increase of taxes: the hardship of unequal taxation: and the continual rise of the poor's rates: with the causes and remedies of these evils, humbly submitted to the consideration of the legislature: in a letter to the Rt. Hon. Lord John Cavendish, chancellor of the Exchequer, &c.
Date: November 1783
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An original system of taxation; or general contribution, by way of stamp-duty. In which all His Majesty's subjects, of every description, being under the Protection of the Laws of this Realm, are required to contribute to the exigencies of the state, in some proportion to their rank and situations in life; but no Persons are required to contribute more than they can afford. Offered a a substitute for the Window Tax, Or any other Imposts that are deemed peculiarly oppressive and injurious to the lower Orders of People, and less productive to his Majesty's Revenue. By one who wishes to be thought a good subject, And is a well-wisher to all People, as well as to the Happiness and Prosperity of his Country.
One Who Wishes To Be Thought a Good Subject.Date: 1796
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A bull tied down by Scottish politicians and burdened with taxation is baited by a Spaniard and a Frenchman and treated with contempt by a Dutchman; representing Great Britain in 1779. Engraving, 1779.
Date: Dec.r 6. 1779Reference: 2921460i

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The taxation of paper in Great Britain 1643-1861 : a history and documentation / H. Dagnall.

An impartial inquiry into the present state of parochial registers; charitable funds; taxation and parish rates.

An Essay on the inequality of our present taxes, particularly the land-tax; and on the means to raise, by an equal, easy taxation, the necessary supplies within the year.

Thoughts on taxation: in the course of which the policy of a tax on income is impartially investigated.

The objections to the taxation of our American colonies, by the legislature of Great Britain, briefly consider'd.

Essays on social security and taxation : Gustav von Schmoller and Adolph Wagner reconsidered / edited by Jürgen G. Backhaus.

Scientific endowments versus increased taxation : (being new neighbourly devices for securing the juster distribution of wealth) / by Elliott E. Mills.

Considérations sur les effets de l'impôt dans les différens modes de taxation. Précédées de quelques notions essentielles, sur les époques les plus instructives de la société. Par le marquis de Casaux, De La Société Royale De Londres, Et De Celle D'Agriculture De Florence.

A letter to Edmund Burke, Esq, controverting the principles of American government, laid down in his lately published speech on American taxation, delivered in the House of Commons, on the 19th of April, 1774.

The speech of the Right Hon. John Wilkes, Esq. Lord Mayor of the City of London, in the House of Commons, on Wednesday, February, 8, 1775, relative to a motion made by Lord North, on the American taxation bills.

The speech of the Right Hon. John Wilkes, Esq. Lord Mayor of the City of London, in the House of Commons, on Wednesday, February, 8, 1775. Relative to a motion made by Lord North, on the American taxation bills.

Tyranny the worst taxation; a poetical epistle to the right honourable Lord N----, ostensible Prime M-r. By the author of Royal Perseverance.

Income Tax: correspondence and forms relating to exemption of Society from taxation, and question of its refund on subscriptions Society as a Charity

Hints towards an improved system of taxation, extending to all persons in exact proportion to their property, and without any kind of investigation or disclosure of their circumstances. With an appendix, Recommending a Plan, arising from this System, for the Institution of a National Bank.

A guide to the people of Great Britain, for a fair and equal representation and taxation. With a map of England and Wales, divided into districts. And also a variety of plans for paying off the national debt. Addressed to the socity for constitutional information.

A Letter to the inhabitants of Cork: in which it is demonstrated that they pay treble taxes, from the present unjust mode of taxation. By many citizens.

Second Report of the Committee appointed by the Right Honourable the Governour of Bengal for the Establishment of a Fever Hospital, and for inquiring into local management and taxation in Calcutta.

Boston, Massachusetts: John Malcolm, a customs official, is lowered by ropes from his house on to a cart and tarred and feathered by a crowd protesting against taxation. Engraving by F. Godefroy, 1784.

Free and candid remarks on the plan of taxation, as resolved on by the Eau-Brink Cut Committee, at their late meeting held at March, in the isle of Ely.

Abridgement of the Report of the Committee appointed by the Right Honourable the Governour of Bengal for the Establishment of a Fever Hospital, and for inquiring into local management and taxation in Calcutta.

A bull tied down by Scottish politicians and burdened with taxation is baited by a Spaniard and a Frenchman and treated with contempt by a Dutchman; representing Great Britain in 1779. Engraving, 1779.