Taxation
Found in 418 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 13 Aug 1909
Letter from [WSC] to David Lloyd George arguing that landowners should be given the option of paying death duties in land. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), 09 Jul 1909
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.
(Untitled), [Jul 1909]
Notes [by Crompton Llewelyn Davies] on bills for the taxation of land values considered by Parliament between 1902 and 1908.
(Untitled), [1909]
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.
(Untitled), 05 Aug 1909
Statement by Edgar Harper [statistical officer of the London County Council] of the case for the taxation of mineral royalties.
(Untitled), 30 Jul 1912
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].
(Untitled), 01 May 1909
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].
(Untitled), 01 May 1909
Notes by Otto Ernst Niemeyer on taxes levied by the Empire and the Federal States in Germany. Sent with CHAR 2/42/10.
(Untitled), [1909]
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.
(Untitled), [1909]
Table showing present and proposed rates of duties on licences taken out by grocers. Typescript.
(Untitled), [1909]
Note on the taxation of land values.
(Untitled), [1909]
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.
(Untitled), 12 Jul 1909
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.
(Untitled), 31 Dec 1903
Letter from Sir Charles Trevelyan to WSC, on the possibility of him joining the Liberal Party, outlining the common ground between Unionist Free Traders and the Liberals, and also the differences such as Irish Home Rule, the liquor monopoly, local taxation, and state regulation of sweated industries.
(Untitled), 15 Feb 1904
Letter from General Sir Bindon Blood, Rawalpindi, India, to WSC, on the Indian Army, and on the "fiscal controversy" in Britain.
(Untitled), [Mar 1929]
Memorandum on the racecourse betting bill by the stewards of the Jockey Club and National Hunt Committee summarising the advantages of the bill as the establishment of totalisators at racing tracks and increased regulation of bookmakers at racecourses and outlining proposals to establish a central authority under control of the Jockey Club and National Hunt Committee, funds for which would be used to support horse breeding and the sport.Printed pamphlet.
(Untitled), 03 Mar 1911
Copy of a letter from WSC (Home Office) to David [Lloyd George] marked "secret" requesting additional finances to reduce the large numbers of deaths in mining accidents. He points out that the miners' leaders are willing to co-operate with the government and that public opinion would approve of a "bold and sweeping policy" which he would propose to fund largely through charges on the mining industry. Typescript.
(Untitled), 08 May 1911
Letter from Archibald Williams, Chairman of the Committee on Taxi-Cab Fares (Royal Commission House, Westminster [London]) to WSC concerning the taxation of taxis under the Light Locomotives Act. Signed typescript.
(Untitled), 30 May 1916
(Untitled), 21 Sep 1915
Return to a House of Commons order for 'statements showing the amount of tax payable on certain incomes, and the virtual rate charged in the pound, under the existing law, and under proposals made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 21 September 1915.'.
(Untitled), [1920]
Statement by [? WSC] arguing that a forced loan rather than taxation would be the best way to reduce the National Debt.
(Untitled), [1920]
Statement of the case in favour of a capital levy on war fortunes to reduce the National Debt. Carbon copies at CHAR 2/112/29-47 and 48-66.
(Untitled), 04 Aug 1919
Letter from WSC (War Office) to [David Lloyd George] on the need to form the Cabinet, to tax war profits, to cut Government spending, to define future role of the Army, Navy and Air Force and assign the appropriate resources, to check unnecessary spending by the Admiralty, preferably by bringing the Navy as well as the other two services under a Ministry of Defence. Copy in WSC's hand.
(Untitled), 26 Aug 1919
Cutting from the Manchester Guardian: article by Hartley Withers on the failure of David Lloyd George to announce measures to tackle the country's economic problems and on the need for higher taxation to restrain consumption and reduce war profits, and to tackle the depreciation of the currency. Sent by Sir Ernest Cassel.
(Untitled), [Aug] [1919]
Notes on the need to impose a levy on excessive war profits in order to reduce the National Debt. Typescript copy.