 | Jan Glete - Business & Economics - 1994 - 536 pages
...which they respectively enjoy under it8 protection. S. Every tax ought to be so contrived, as to take out of the pockets of the people as little as possible,...what it brings into the public treasury of the state. 3. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 664 pages
...endorses convenience in the timing and manner of payment. Lastly, the fourth canon advises that: " Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - Business & Economics - 1995 - 292 pages
...little waste as possible. "Each tax ought ... to be so contrived," he wrote, "as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the publick treasury of the state." 50 For Smith, the market was the most striking example of a social... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Business & Economics - 1998 - 516 pages
...pleases, it must be his own fault if he ever suffers any considerable inconvenience from such taxes. '4. Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible over and above what it brings into the... | |
 | Jay K. Rosengard - Business & Economics - 1997 - 246 pages
...countries than the net revenue they generate.23 As Adam Smith wrote more than two hundred years ago: Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into... | |
 | Alfred E. Kellermann - Law - 1998 - 404 pages
...Convenience and Economy had a lot to do with compliance and compliance costs. His canon on Economy: 'every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible over and above what it brings into the... | |
 | Evelyn Baring Earl of Cromer - History - 2000 - 618 pages
...convenient for the contributor to pay, and the system of collection, so far from being " contrived so as to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible over and above what the tax brings into the public treasury," was such as to ensure results of a diametrically opposite... | |
 | Charles Gide, Charles Rist - Business & Economics - 2000 - 728 pages
...pay it. (iv) Every tax ought to be so eontrived aa both to take out and to keep out of the poekets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the publie treasury of the State." (Wealth of Nations, Book V, ehap. 2, part ii ; Cannan. vol. ii, pp.... | |
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Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to 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. 
