Letter from William ? (Treasury Chambers) to "Jim" [?] commenting on points raised by Lady Savile on the annual taxation of the value of unextracted minerals as it relates to coal on Lord Savile's Rufford Abbey Estate [Ollerton, Nottinghamshire].

Letter from Ivor Guest [later Lord Ashby St Ledgers and Lord Wimborne (2nd baron, 1st viscount)] (Ashby St Ledgers, Rugby, [Warwickshire]) to WSC discussing the effect of David Lloyd George's oratory and the Government's radical taxation policies. Thinks that WSC and Lloyd George have "started in a path which leads into the unknown".

Letter from Robert Chalmers [Assistant Secretary at the Treasury] (19 Earl's Terrace, Kensington, [London]) to WSC answering WSC's queries about the taxation of agricultural land, the qualification for old age pensions of those in receipt of poor relief, and rate relief.

Report on the large increase in the income of local landowners (unearned by them) arising from the development of the coalfield in the Aber Valley near Caerphilly [Glamorgan, Wales], and the exemption of this income from local taxation, which the Budget seeks to remedy. Annotated typescript.

Report on the large royalties and increase in land values benefitting 1st Lord Plymouth, the owner of the land on which the Barry Dock near Cardiff [Wales] has been built, and the intention in the Budget to tax this unearned income. Typescript.

Letter from [WSC] to David Lloyd George arguing that landowners should be given the option of paying death duties in land. Typescript copy.

Notes by Crompton Llewelyn Davies on duties on minerals and on a call at the annual conference of the Scottish miners for the taxation of coal royalties received by landowners.

Notes [by Crompton Llewelyn Davies] on bills for the taxation of land values considered by Parliament between 1902 and 1908.

Extract from the speech in 1903 of Thomas Shaw (later Lord Shaw) on Thomas Macnamara's Land Values Bill giving examples of inflated prices of land used for public works in Edinburgh [Scotland]. Annotated typescript.

Statement by Edgar Harper [statistical officer of the London County Council] of the case for the taxation of mineral royalties.

Memorandum by Edgar Harper [statistical officer of the London County Council] arguing that a uniform rate on land values is preferable to a uniform tax. Typescript annotated by [?Sydney Buxton, later Lord Buxton, that the issue is best not dealt with during the election].

Letter from Otto Ernst Niemeyer (Treasury) to Edward Marsh enclosing and commenting on notes on taxes levied by the Empire and the Federal States in Germany [see CHAR 2/42/11-12].

Notes by Otto Ernst Niemeyer on taxes levied by the Empire and the Federal States in Germany. Sent with CHAR 2/42/10.

Printed table with manuscript additions showing the revenues derived from indirect and direct taxation and the amount of tax revenue per head of population from 1874/5 to 1909/10.

Table showing present and proposed rates of duties on licences taken out by grocers. Typescript.

Note on the taxation of land values.

Extract from the speech of Lord Chatham on 15 January 1766 asserting the sole right of the Houe of Commons to grant taxation. Typescript with manuscript heading.

Note by Sir Robert Chalmers [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue] on the relief recently granted by the Government to payers of income tax. Typescript and manuscript.

Letter from Josiah Wedgwood (House of Commons) to WSC explaining how a Single Tax would secure to workers the full reward for their labour. Signed and annotated typescript.

Note from WSC (Home Office) to John Pedder enclosing a memorandum [not present] from the Socialist Lord Provost of Dundee [Scotland] on the reduction in crime following the imposition of a new whisky duty, 21 Sep 1910 Typescript annotated with Pedder's comments on the memorandum, 23 Sep [1910, and with note that it was sent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer [David Lloyd George], 28 Sep [1910]].

Letter from C P Scott (The Firs, Fallowfield, Manchester) to WSC asserting that only if social reform were financed from taxation would people appreciate its true cost.

Letter from WSC to [Henry] Chaplin correcting WSC's reported statements on protective taxation quoted in a letter from Chaplin in the Times. Copy in WSC's hand. Annotated: "not sent".

Letter from Robert Chalmers (Board of Inland Revenue) to Edward Marsh reporting that the Chancellor of the Exchequer [David Lloyd George] did not in 1909 favour the exemption of estates from estate duty for 25 years because the loss of revenue could not be afforded "in these spacious days of social reform.".

Letter from Edward Langdon, president of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce] (16 Oxford Street, Manchester), to WSC complaining of the excessive tax burden placed upon the business community by the current high expenditure on armaments. Signed and annotated typescript. Sent with CHAR 2/62/77-78.