The Income Tax: A Study of the History, Theory and Practice of Income Taxation at Home and Abroad

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Macmillan, 1911 - 711 strani
 

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THE INCOME TAX IN ENGLAND
57
The Act of 1798
65
Pitts Conversion to the Income Tax
72
The Act of 1799
78
The Public Attitude toward the Income
82
The Act of 1803
89
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100
The Act of 1806
101
The Repeal of the Income
106
CHAPTER II
116
18321842
122
Peels Act of 1842
128
The Development to 1851
136
The Select Committee of 1851
145
Gladstones Budget of 1853
150
A Decade of Quiet
155
The Committee of 1861
161
CHAPTER III
167
The Growing Permanence of the Tax 18741894
172
The Emergence of the Newer Problems 18941904
179
The Departmental Committee of 1904
185
The Question of Fraud
192
The Select Committee of 1906
196
The Adoption of Differentiation in 1907
202
The Adoption of Graduation in 1910
207
Conclusion
213
BOOK II
221
THE INCOME TAX ON THE CONTINENT CHAPTER I
223
The Movement toward the Income
230
From the Revolution of 1848 to the FrancoPrussian
236
The Prussian Income Tax of 1891
250
The Spread of the Movement to the other German States
258
Criticisms and Amendments 19001909
261
Conclusion
270
CHAPTER II
273
167
276
The Revolution of 1848
278
The FrancoPrussian
283
From Gambetta to the Périn Amendment 18711878
288
From Dauphins Bill to the ExtraParliamentary Committee 18871894 6 From the ExtraParliamentary Committee to the End of the Century 18941899
293
From Caillauxs First Ministry to his Second 18991907
306
The Income Tax Bill of 1907
310
The Discussions of 19071909
321
Conclusion
325
CHAPTER III
329
Austria
337
Italy The Historical Development
338
3 Italy The Actual Conditions
345
The Middle and Southern Colonies
377

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Stran 543 - 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.
Stran 540 - 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...
Stran 581 - 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.
Stran 583 - 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.
Stran 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.
Stran 443 - 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...
Stran 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...
Stran 543 - That the right of suffrage in the first branch of the national legislature ought not to be according to the rule established in the articles of confederation, but according to some equitable ratio of representation, namely, in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens, and inhabitants of every age, sex and condition, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not...
Stran 581 - 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.
Stran 432 - ... or from any profession, trade, employment, or vocation carried on in the United States or elsewhere, or from any other source whatever...

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