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Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America. To which is added, an appendix and postscript, containing, a state of the national debt, An Estimate of the Money drawn from the Public by the Taxes, and An Account of the National Income and Expenditure since the last War. By Richard Price, D.D. F.R.S.
Price, Richard, 1723-1791.Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America. To which is added an appendix and postscript, containing a state of the national debt, an Estimate of the Money drawn from the Public by the Taxes, and an Account of the National Income and Expenditure since the last War. By Richard Price, D.D. F.R.S.
Price, Richard, 1723-1791.Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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A practical arrangement of the laws relative to the excise; wherein the statutes, with references to similar English Acts of Parliament, are carefully digested. To which are added, cases Adjudged in the Court of Appeals, decisions of the Commissioners for Taxes in England on male Servants and Windows, with the opinions of the Judges Thereupon, and an appendix of Precedents of Informations, &c. By Maurice Copinger, Esq. One of his Majesty's Counsel at Law.
Copinger, Maurice.Date: 1799- Books
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A serious address to the proprietors of the publick funds, occasion'd by several late schemes for reducing their interest, or subjecting them to taxes: in which The Rights of Publick Creditors are explained and asserted; Their Just Claim, from the Principles of Reason, Rules of Law, and Maxims of Policy, to an Exemption from Taxes fully demonstrated; And concluded by A Rational proposal for strengthening their Security, and for the better Support of Publick Credit. Humbly submitted to the Consideration of the Members of the House of Commons.
Date: 1744- Books
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An appeal to the people, on the contents of the budget, proving the Taxes not only Oppressive, but Ill-Chosen: and submitting to their opinion certain Ways and Means for reducing the National Debt, without Tax or Assessment: being a compleat refutation of Mr. Pitt's plan of effecting the same, by Means of the Sinking Fund; which is herein demonstrated, not only ruinous to the Subject, but fundamentally fallacious, and consequently founded in Error. By one of themselves Audite.
One of Themselves.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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A concise abstract of the most important clauses in the following interesting acts of Parliament, passed in the session of 1779; By which the Public in general are more immediately affected, than by any passed in any former Session, viz. 1. Act for the Suppression of Smugglers, and the Protection and Encouragement of Fair Traders. 2. Act for Preventing Personal Arrests under Ten Pounds. 3. Act for Raising, Embodying, and Regulating the Militia in England, and Fencible Men in Scotland. 4. Act for Impressing Seamen. 5. Act for Erecting Penitentiary Houses for the Confinement of Offenders convicted of Transportable Crimes. 6. Act for imposing Taxes on Dwelling-Houses, and Hired Servants. 7. Act for imposing Taxes on Post and other Hired Horses, and Carriages. 8. Act for Additional Stamp Duties, wherein are ascertained the Quantity of Chancery and Common-Law Sheets. 9. Act for Licensing Auctioneers, and Taxing Estates and Goods sold by Auction. With a preface, notes, and observations, by a gentleman of the Inner-Temple.
Great Britain.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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An inquiry into the reasonableness and consequences of an union with Scotland. Containing a brief deduction of what hath been done, designed, or proposed, in the matter of the Union, during the last Age. A Scheme of an Union, as accommodated to the present Circumstances, of the two Nations. Also States, of the respective Revenues, Debts, Weights, Measures, Taxes and Impositions, and of other Facts of moment. With Observations thereupon. As communicated to Laurence Philips, Esq; near York.
Wednesdays Club in Friday-Street.Date: 1706- Books
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The national debt no national grievance; or The real State of the Nation, With respect to its civil and religious Liberty, Commerce, Public-Credit, and Finances. Interspersed with, Critical Remarks on a pamphlet lately published, Intitled, The present State of the Nation; To which are added, Proposals for improving the Public Revenue, and for providing a Fund for the Exigencies of War, without laying additional Taxes on the Public. Addressed to the People of England. By a financier.
Mortimer, Thomas, 1730-1810.Date: M.DCC.LXVIII. [1768]- Books
Carbon taxes and global warming / William Lea.
Lea, William.Date: 1993- Books
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The laws of taxation. Being, a concise treatise of all the acts of Parliament now in force, or that were ever made and pass'd, relating to the taxes of England, and the other Branches of the Royal Revenue. Wherein are set forth, the power and authority of the Senate in levying of taxes; the duties and charges upon the subject impos'd in all reigns; particularly on Candles, Soap, Leather, Malt, Plate, Stamp Duties, Land Tax, and Lottery Acts, Customs, Excise, Wine Licence, &c. The penalties for defaults in payment, and every thing necessary to be known by the Persons taxed, Commissioners of Taxes, Assessors, &c. To which is prefix'd, a preface, shewing how far the subject may be eas'd with respect to these taxes in the present times.
Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744.Date: [1721]- Ephemera
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Assessed taxes:-cases : No. 2355.-County of Somerset, District of Bristol City.
Date: [approximately 1855]- Books
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The absolute necessity of laying open the trade to the East-Indies. Proving that as a Revenue of 5 Millions per ann. and a Contribution of 8 Millions, will be acquired by Government; the Subjects put in Possession of their Natural Right to a free Trade, and relieved of their burthensome Taxes, every Proposal for continuing the Company's Charter ought to be rejected; and the Men who patronize such Proposals considered as Enemies to the Interest both of Subject and State.
Untainted Englishman.Date: 1767- Books
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Reflections on the expediency of a law for the naturalization of foreign Protestants: in two parts. Part II. Containing important queries relating to commerce, -The Employment of the Poor,-The Landed and National Interest,-Taxes of all Kinds, particularly the Poor Tax,-The real Interest of Tradesmen,-Reformation of Morals,-Constitution both in Church and State, the Duties of Humanity, and the Principles of the Christian Religion. By Josiah Tucker, M. A. Rector of St Stephen's in Bristol, and Chaplain to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Bristol.
Tucker, Josiah, 1712-1799.Date: M.DCC.LII. [1752]- Books
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Essays on the spirit of legislation, in the encouragement of agriculture, population, manufactures, and commerce. Containing observations on the political systems at present pursued in various Countries of Europe, for the Advancement of those essential Interests. Interspersed with various remarks on the practice of Agriculture. Societies of Agriculture. Rewards. Bounties. The Police. Luxury. Industry. Machines. Exportation. Taxes. Inoculation. Marriage. Naturalization, &c. Translated from the original French, which gained the premiums offered by the Society of Berne in Switzerland, for the best compositions on this subject.
Société oeconomique de Berne.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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Essays on the spirit of legislation, in the encouragement of agriculture, population, manufactures, and commerce. Containing observations on the political systems at present pursued in various countries of Europe, for the advancement of those essential interests. Interspersed with various remarks on the practice of agriculture. Societies of agriculture. Rewards. Bounties. The police. Luxury. Industry. Machines. Exportation. Taxes. Inoculation. Marriage. Naturalization, &c. Translated from the original French, which gained the premiums offered by the Oeconomical Society of Berne, in Switzerland, for the best compositions on this subject.
Date: M,DCC,XCVIII. [1798]- Books
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Phillips's British merlin, and provincial calendar for the year 1796, Containing the Calendar Months, the Places of the Sun, Moon and Planets, the Rising and Setting of the Sun and Moon, the Eclipses, and other useful Astronomical Intelligence; also, a list of the Fairs, in the Counties of Leicester, Northampton, Rutland, Warwick, Derby, Nottingham, and Lincoln. The Members of Parliament, &c. for the same Counties. Also, an useful Table of all the existing and most common Taxes; Together with an interesting series of curious Astrological Predictions.
Phillips, R., Sir (Richard), 1767-1840.Date: [1795]- Books
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Essays on the spirit of legislation, in the encouragement of agriculture, population, manufactures and commerce. Containing observations on the political systems at present pursued in various countries of Europe for the advancement of those essential interests. Intersperse with various remarks on the practice of agriculture. Societies of agriculture. Rewards. Bounties. The police. Luxury. Industry. Machines. Exportation. Taxes. Inoculation. Marriage. Naturalization, &c. Translated from the original French, which gained the premiums offered by the Oeconomical Society of Berne, in Switzerland, for the best compositions on this subject.
Date: --M,DCC,XCIX.-- [1799]- Books
Green taxes / Fiona Poole & Antony Seely, Patsy Hughes.
Poole, Fiona.Date: 1997- Archives and manuscripts
RATES AND TAXES
Date: 1830-1914Reference: RET/3/9Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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Rates and taxes
Date: 1935-1963Reference: SA/FPA/NK/119Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
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English liberty in some cases worse than French slavery: exemplified by animadversions upon the tyrranical and anti-constitutional power of the Justices of the Peace, Commissioners of Excise, Customs, and Land-Tax, &c. Containing A particular Relation of the barbarous and oppressive Methods made Use of in Raising the Land-Tax of this Kingdom, Compared with An Historical Narrative of the More mild, and equitable Measures pursued in raising the Taxes, call'd the Taillé and Taillon, the most oppressive in France. In a letter address'd to the serious consideration of the lesser freeholders and electors of Great-Britain.
Philalethes.Date: [1748]- Books
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Proposals for carrying on the war with vigour, Raising the Supplies within the Year, And Forming a national militia. To which are added, Considerations in Respect to Manufacturers and Labourers, and the Taxes paid by them; the Inconveniencies of Credit for small Sums, and the Courts lately erected to recover them. Intended to demonstrate, That it is not the Dearness of the Labour of the Poor, but the Profits and Expences of higher Classes of People, which are the real Clog on the Foreign Trade and Commerce of England.
Date: 1757- Books
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The speech of Earl Stanhope, in the House of Lords, On Thursday the 20th of February, 1800, in support of his motion for peace with the French Republic; Wherein he shews the ruinous Tendency of the War, drawn from authentic documents, published by George Rose, secretary of the treasury, With a Comparative View of the Resources and Taxes of Great Britain and France; also, seven reasons for discontinuing the war as the best means of supplying the people with bread, And removing the apparent Prospect of the Scarcity of that necessary Article.
Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816.Date: M,D,CCC. [1800]- Books
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Observations on the nature of civil liberty the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America. To which are added, an appendix and postscript, containing a state of the national debt, an Estimate of the Money drawn from the Public by the Taxes, and an Account of the National Income and Expenditure since the last War, with the Amount of the capital at the Bank, South Sea, and India House, not inserted in the London Edition of this Work. By Richard Price, D. D. F. R. S.
Price, Richard, 1723-1791.Date: 1776- Books
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Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America. To which is added, an appendix, containing a state of the natinal debt, an Estimate of the Money drawn from the Public by the Taxes, and an Account of the National Income and Expenditure since the last War. With the Amount of the Capitals at the Bank, South-Sea, and India-Houses, not inserted in the London Edition of this Work. By Richard Price, D.D. F.R.S.
Price, Richard, 1723-1791.Date: M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776]