The History Of Local Rates In England

Author : Edwin Cannan
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ISBN 13 : 9781331176657
Total Pages : 248 pages
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Download or read book The History of Local Rates in England written by Edwin Cannan and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Local Rates in England: In Relation to the Proper Distribution of the Burden of Taxation The whole of the first edition of this book, published in 1896, with a few corrections and the omission of the first five pages, reappears in the first five chapters of the present edition. To the original title, "The History of Local Rates in England," I have now added the words, "in relation to the proper distribution of the burden of taxation," to indicate the particular limitation of the scope of the work which I have always had in my mind. The purpose of the five original chapters and of the lectures founded on them which were delivered at the London School of Economics at the end of 1895, soon after the foundation of that institution, was to explain why and how local taxation in England came to be confined to immovable property. After that was settled in 1840, efforts soon began to be made to shift some of the expenses borne by local rates on to national funds. The powerful agrarian interest, smarting under the loss of Protection, supported these efforts, and a struggle between those who are regarded as predominantly local ratepayers and those who are regarded as predominantly national taxpayers set in, and has continued to our own time. In the sixth chapter I have endeavoured to give a sketch of the results of this struggle which shall be accurate and sufficient without being overloaded with detail. 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.