J. C. Graham
Published: 2015-07-21
Total Pages: 132
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Excerpt from Taxation: Local and Imperial and Local Government In the year ending March 1897, a sum of 37,000,000 was raised by local taxation in the form of rates. This sum was raised by the taxation, or, as it is more usually expressed, by the rating of occupiers of lands and houses by the various rating authorities, such as the Guardians of the Poor, County Councils, Town Councils, District Councils, Local Boards, Metropolitan Vestries, and Highway Authorities; this sum does not include the large sums which are annually paid under the names of gas and water rates, which so-called rates have no more connection with Local Taxation than railway rates. In the following pages I have endeavoured to examine into the question whether these local rates are paid by the persons who ought to pay them, and also to give a general historical account of the way in which these rates came to be made payable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."