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A set of eight volumes, these texts are designed to cover the literature of taxation from the late-17th century to the end of the 19th century. The writings focus on a number of themes, reflecting in turn the problems which revenue raisers have encountered over two centuries.
Volume IV Introduction to IV The Principles of an Equitable and Efficient System of Finance (1820) Brief Observations on the Necessity of a Renewal of a Property Tax under Certain Modifications (1820/1821) Taxation (1832) Summary of Retrenchment (1832) New Taxes (1832) The National Debt (1832) Observations occasioned by a Motion in the House of Commons on the 26th of March, 1833, by G. R. Robinson, Esquire, for a Select Committee, ‘To consider and revise our existing taxation, with a view to the repeal of those burthens which press most heavily on productive industry, and the substitution of an equitable property tax in lieu thereof.’ (1833) Reflections on a Graduated Property and Income Tax (1833) Excessive and Misdirected Taxation (1833) An Attempt to Shew the Justice and Expediency of Substituting an Income and Property Tax for the Present Taxes or part of them; as affording the Most Equitable, the least Injurious, and the least obnoxious Mode of Taxation (1833) Aristocratic Taxation: its Present State, Origin and Progress with Proposals for Reform (1842)
Biography
D P O'Brien
