Taxation
Found in 418 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 08 Jan 1911
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.".
(Untitled), 14 Mar 1911
(Untitled), 17 Dec [1905]
Letter from J H Anderson (Lexham Gardens, [London]) to WSC congratulating him [on his appointment as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies] and making suggestions for local taxation. Annotated in shorthand.
(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), [1910]
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".
(Untitled), 1907
Leaflets issued by the Liberal Publication Department, covering the budget of 1907, land reform and small holdings, registration of voters and Conservative proposals for Tariff Reform and the abolition of income tax. 6 items.
(Untitled), 25 Apr 1907
Printed circular letter issued by the Financial Reform Association (18 Hackins Hey, Liverpool) on the raising of revenue by direct and indirect taxation.
(Untitled), 9 Dec 1924
Copy of a letter from WSC (Treasury Chambers) to [4th Lord Salisbury, earlier Lord Cranborne, Lord Privy Seal] in response to [Salisbury's] paper including: discussion of capitalism, the effect of death duties to mitigate against the creation of the "idle rich", and his belief that the rich are already taxed as much as possible.Unsigned typescript.
(Untitled), 16 Nov 1924
(Untitled), 25 Nov 1924
(Untitled), 23 Apr 1925
(Untitled), 7 Jan 1926
Copy of a minute from WSC to Sir Richard Hopkins [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue] asking his "Committee of Five" to consider a revolutionary scheme to separate coprporate and investment income, treat earned income more favourably, and levy income and super tax on investment income by means of a national register. He ends by summarising the advantages of this scheme and discussing the establishment of the register.Carbon typescript.
(Untitled), 28 Oct 1926
(Untitled), 10 Jan 1926
Carbon copy of WSC's proposal for the betting tax.
(Untitled), 12 Oct 1926
(Untitled), 13 Nov 1926
(Untitled), 26 Jan 1927
(Untitled), 06 Jun 1927
(Untitled), 20 Apr 1927
(Untitled), 29 May 1928
Copy of a minute from WSC to Sir Ernest Gowers [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue] on opposition amendments to the Finance Bill, seeking figures to show that the majority of the relief will go to the industries where profits are lowest and unemployment is highest.Carbon typescript. Unsigned.
(Untitled), 13 Apr [1929]
Handwritten note from ?FG to James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] enclosing typewritten figures on indirect taxes and percentages of total tax revenue from 1913/14- proposed figures for 1929/30 with a note on the figures for sugar, tea, cocoa, coffee and matches.Annotated [by WSC] "Keep."
(Untitled), 8 Apr 1929
Letter from Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton] (Chester Square [London]) to [WSC] on WSC's budget which he describes as "an absolutely first-class fighting Budget" and making observations on policies which will support the Conservative election campaign, specifically relief for "publicans and the Bookies", and the removal of tea duty, modernisation and support for industry and the development of markets in the Empire.Signed manuscript.
(Untitled), 16 Oct 1928
(Untitled), [14 Jul 1903]
Letter from Beatrice Webb (later Lady Passfield), 41 Grosvenor Road, Westminster Embankment, London, to WSC, on working class feeling against taxes on food and its relation to the growth of socialism, recommending that he should consult Eduard Bernstein of Berlin.
(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.