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Routledge
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 V Introduction Of Taxation (1844) Direct Taxes (1844) Plans for an Improved Income Tax and Real Free Trade, with an Equitable Mode of Redeeming the National Debt (1845) The Income Tax: its Extension at the Present Rate proposed to all Classes; Abolishing the Malt Tax, the Window Tax, Duty on Hops, on Licenses to sell and make Beer, the Tax on Railways, the Excise on Bricks; and reducing the Duty on French Wines (1846) A Per Centage Tax on Domestic Expenditure, to supply the whole of the Public Revenue (1847) Direct Taxation. The Income Tax, the Property Tax and Free Trade (1848) Remarks on some Popular Objections to the present Income Tax (1849) Thoughts on the Principles of Taxation with Reference to a Property Tax and its Exceptions (1851) Thoughts on an Income Tax, and on a Property Tax; Principally founded on the Evidence taken by the House of Commons Committee in the Session 1851 (1852) A Just Income Tax - How Possible (1852)
Biography
D P O'Brien
