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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. III.?1. The Local Taxes of the United Kingdom; containing a Digest of the Law, with a Summary of Statistical Information, concerning the several Local Taxes in England, Scotland, and Ireland. Published under the direction of the Poor-Law Commissioners. 8vo. London: 1846. 2.?Report from the Select Committee of the Home of Lords on the Burdens affecting Real Property, together with the Minutes of Evidence taken before the said Committee. Session 1846. VIAny causes have, in this country, combined to concentrate --'- public attention upon the taxes levied and expended by the General government, and to divert it from the Local taxes. Not only is the amount of the general taxes larger, but it is looked at in the aggregate. Every body knows that the public revenue of the kingdom amounts to about fifty millions a-year. The expenditure, too, involves many of those national interests, and political questions, which occupy the chief attention of the statesman, and decide the movements of parties and the fate of ministries. The conduct of wars, military and naval establishments, the defence of the country, the maintenance of the Sovereign, the salaries and pensions of ministers of state, the rewards of great men; these, and other similar questions, are intimately connected with the expenditure of the general taxes. Both their levy, moreover, and their expenditure, are under the direct control of Parliament; all the decisions relating to them are made upon the immediate responsibility of the government, and are subjected to parliamentary discussion. On the other hand, the local taxation is not only less in amount, but it is rarely viewed in the aggregate. In general, it is known merely by some fractional part. We either hear of the total amount of the poor's rate, or the highway...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217947497 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217947492 |
| Weight | 1.74 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.21 In |
| List Price | $35.07 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 544 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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