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... income and stamp taxes , and by various smaller taxes on carriages , servants , etc. England and Wales . - The local taxation of England and Wales by counties , " unions " and parishes for 1867 - '68 is returned at £ 16,783,220 ...
... income and stamp taxes , and by various smaller taxes on carriages , servants , etc. England and Wales . - The local taxation of England and Wales by counties , " unions " and parishes for 1867 - '68 is returned at £ 16,783,220 ...
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... income for other than personal pur- poses , it is not by any means to be argued that taxation , in itself , is necessarily an evil . On the contrary , it can probably be demonstrated that there is no one act which can be per- formed by ...
... income for other than personal pur- poses , it is not by any means to be argued that taxation , in itself , is necessarily an evil . On the contrary , it can probably be demonstrated that there is no one act which can be per- formed by ...
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... income from this source in 1869 was $ 373,420 . 5th . A tax of five per cent on every dollar of interest paid by the cor- porations of the State to its bondholders or creditors ; in lieu of which the principal sums from the interest of ...
... income from this source in 1869 was $ 373,420 . 5th . A tax of five per cent on every dollar of interest paid by the cor- porations of the State to its bondholders or creditors ; in lieu of which the principal sums from the interest of ...
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... vessels of the line , of forty- eight per cent ; on the profits or dividends of the company ( if perchance there should be any ) , an income tax ; on all tickets for passage , a tax varying from fifty cents to 22 LOCAL TAXATION .
... vessels of the line , of forty- eight per cent ; on the profits or dividends of the company ( if perchance there should be any ) , an income tax ; on all tickets for passage , a tax varying from fifty cents to 22 LOCAL TAXATION .
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... income tax on the profits of the individual stockholders or owners , of four pence on the pound sterling , equivalent to one and two - thirds per cent , and , omitting all other forms of direct taxation , would have allowed all articles ...
... income tax on the profits of the individual stockholders or owners , of four pence on the pound sterling , equivalent to one and two - thirds per cent , and , omitting all other forms of direct taxation , would have allowed all articles ...
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Page 96 - A nation within whose territory any personal property is actually situate has an entire dominion over it while therein, in point of sovereignty and jurisdiction, as it has over immovable property situate there.
Page 125 - The list of any person need not include any property situated in another state, when it can be made satisfactorily to appear to the assessors that the same is fully assessed and taxed in such state, to the same extent as other like property owned by its citizens ; but the provisions of this section shall not apply to moneys loaned by residents of this state to any party out of this state, as money at interest...
Page 65 - TDe privileges and franchises granted by the legislature of this state, to savings banks or institutions for savings, are hereby declared to be personal property and liable to taxation as such in the town or ward where they are located to an amount not exceeding the gross sum of their surplus earned...
Page 39 - There shall be annually assessed and collected, in the same manner as other State revenue may be assessed and collected, a tax of two mills upon each dollar's worth of taxable property, in addition to all other taxes, to be applied as follows...
Page 135 - A uniform tax imposed by a state on all sales made in it, whether they be made by a citizen of it or a citizen of some other state, and whether the goods sold are the produce of the state enacting the law or of some other state, is valid...
Page 28 - ... action, debts due from solvent debtors, whether on account, contract, note, bond or mortgage ; debts and obligations for the payment of money due or owing to persons residing within this state, however secured or wherever such securities shall be held; debts due by inhabitants of this state to persons not residing within the United States for the purchase of any real estate; public stocks, stocks in moneyed corporations, and such portion of the capital of incorporated companies, liable to taxation...
Page 142 - States, shall be assessed and taxed on the value of their shares of stock therein; said shares shall be included in the valuation of the personal property of such stockholders in the assessment of taxes in the tax district where such bank or banking association is located, and not elsewhere, whether the said stockholders reside in said tax district or not.
Page 103 - The establishment of that great thoroughfare is regarded as a public work, established by public authority, intended for the public use and benefit, the use of which is secured to the whole community, and constitutes, therefore, like a canal, turnpike or highway, a public easement.
Page 103 - To lay out its road not exceeding six rods in width, and to construct the same; and for the purpose of cuttings and embankments, to take as much more land as may be necessary for the proper construction and security of the road...
Page 138 - Blair, counsel for defendant, namely : that such a tax was a regulation of commerce, a tax imposed upon the transportation of goods from one State to another, over the high seas, in conflict with that freedom of transit of goods and persons between one State and another, which is within the rule laid down in Crandall v. Nevada, 6 Wall. 35, and with the authority of Congress to regulate commerce among the States.