Report Of His Majestys Commissioners Appointed To Inquire Into The Subject Of Local Taxation England And Wales Final

Author : Great Britain. Royal Taxation
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230037899
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Subject of Local Taxation; Local Rates in England and Wales. Valuation and Collect written by Great Britain. Royal Taxation and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...and in the result they framed not only a scale of deductions but a set of instruc" tions for the guidance of the several Union Assessment Committees in making assessments " which they were recommended to adopt. At this conference a resolution was adopted in "favour of only one basis of assessment for County Rate, Poor Law, and all other purposes. " Upon this resolution being submitted to the Suffolk Joint Committee they adopted a similar " resolution, but extended it to Imperial taxation. Since then, upon the initiative of the Sufiolk " Joint Committee, the County Councils' Association have adopted a similar resolution, and several " County Councils have expressed themselves in favour thereof, and others have the matter under " consideration, while I have heard of only two County Councils having decided to take no action " in the matter." " I think we have here a practical suggestion which might be followed up, namely, that County " Councils should be empowered to fix a binding scale of deductions, and that they should be able "to do this through a committee, and that there should be power to place on such committee a "limited number of representatives appointed by the Union Assessment Committees. In this way "it would be possible to get some degree of uniformity and equity as between union and " union in the matter of their assessments, and possibly the double assessment for Union and " County rate purposes might be avoided." " I believe such an uniform scale of deductions would be an improvement in the present system. " It would also be an advantage if some degree of permanency in assessments could be...