An Essay on the Reform of Local Taxation in England (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Old methods of local taxation provided different rates according to the purpose of the expenditure - Causes of the decay of differen tiated rating the practice of Parliament to create a separate rate for each purpose of expenditure as it arose - Weekly, monthly, and quarterly assessment - The smallness of the amount of each rate - The heterogenous nature of the purposes - The advantages of the poor-rate as regards certainty, etc. - The universal adop tion of the poor-rate whether the law did or did not authorise its application - The reasons of the Poor Law Commissioners for recommending statutory recognition of this amalgamation These reasons do not hold good at the present day.

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