The Income Tax: A Study of the History, Theory and Practice of Income Taxation at Home and Abroad |
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... cent on all incomes throughout the country . This tax , suppressed and reenacted from time to time , was converted in 1749 into a five per cent tax , or Twentieth ( ving- tième ) ; and this continued until the Revolution , being supple ...
... cent on all incomes throughout the country . This tax , suppressed and reenacted from time to time , was converted in 1749 into a five per cent tax , or Twentieth ( ving- tième ) ; and this continued until the Revolution , being supple ...
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... cent in 1790 , were increased by further additions of ten per cent in 1796 , and again in 1797 , while the system was extended from carriages , servants , and horses so to include taxes on hair- powder , dogs , watches and clocks . All ...
... cent in 1790 , were increased by further additions of ten per cent in 1796 , and again in 1797 , while the system was extended from carriages , servants , and horses so to include taxes on hair- powder , dogs , watches and clocks . All ...
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... cent to ten per cent ; while all incomes over £ 200 paid ten per cent . In other words , while the normal rate of tax was supposed to be ten per cent , the rates were progressively reduced on all incomes below £ 200 , until at £ 60 no ...
... cent to ten per cent ; while all incomes over £ 200 paid ten per cent . In other words , while the normal rate of tax was supposed to be ten per cent , the rates were progressively reduced on all incomes below £ 200 , until at £ 60 no ...
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... cent in the case of farm buildings ; eight per cent in the case of a farm with a principal messuage ; ten per cent in the case of houses and buildings not occupied with a farm . 2 The four heads were : - I. Income from real estate . II ...
... cent in the case of farm buildings ; eight per cent in the case of a farm with a principal messuage ; ten per cent in the case of houses and buildings not occupied with a farm . 2 The four heads were : - I. Income from real estate . II ...
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... cent of the rent for farm - houses , or five 1 The law of 1803 , like that in force at present , speaks in several places of " profits and gains . " These words have repeatedly been held to be synonymous and to signify income ...
... cent of the rent for farm - houses , or five 1 The law of 1803 , like that in force at present , speaks in several places of " profits and gains . " These words have repeatedly been held to be synonymous and to signify income ...
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Page 545 - Resolved therefore, that the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned to the quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants, as the one or the other rule may seem best in different cases.
Page 542 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states...
Page 434 - ... or from any profession, trade, employment, or vocation carried on in the United States or elsewhere, or from any other source whatever...
Page 597 - That the power to tax involves the power to destroy; that ; the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create; that there is a plain repugnance in conferring on one government a power to control the constitutional measures of another, which other, with respect to those very means, is declared to be supreme over that which exerts the control, are propositions not to be denied.
Page 597 - The result is a conviction that the States have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control, the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into execution the powers vested in the general government.
Page 599 - The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on income, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States and without regard to any census or enumeration; provided that in no case shall the maximum rate of tax exceed 25 percent.
Page 116 - Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home. Taxes on the raw material ; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man.
Page 445 - Provided, That no deduction shall be allowed for any amount paid out for new buildings, permanent improvements, or betterments, made to increase the value of any property or estate...
Page 116 - TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon every thing which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste — taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion — taxes on every thing on earth, and the waters under the earth...
Page 139 - M'CULLOCH. -A TREATISE ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICAL INFLUENCE of TAXATION and the FUNDING SYSTEM.