A Treatise of Taxes & Contributions

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Author

Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687

Title

A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions Shewing the nature and measures of crown-lands, assessements, customs, poll-moneys, lotteries, benevolence, penalties, monopolies, offices, tythes, raising of coins, harth-money, excize, &c.; with several intersperst discourses and digressions concerning warres, the church, universities, rents & purchases, usury & exchange, banks & lombards, registries for conveyances, beggars, ensurance, exportation of money [&] wool, free-ports, coins, housing, liberty of conscience, &c.; the same being frequently applied to the present state and affairs of Ireland.

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Produced by John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

HJ: Social sciences: Public finance

Subject

Taxation -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 61588

Release Date

March 9, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A TREATISE OF Taxes & Contributions. — The Preface. — The Index.
2. 2.CHAP. I. Of the several sorts of Publick Charges.
3. 3.CHAP. II. Of the Causes which encrease and aggravate the several sorts of Publick Charges.
4. 4.CHAP. III. How the Causes of the unquiet bearing of Taxes may be lessened.
5. 5.CHAP. IV. Of the several wayes of Taxe, and first, of setting a part, a proportion of the whole Territory for Publick uses, in the nature of Crown Lands; and secondly, by way of Assessement, or Land-taxe.
6. 6.CHAP. V. Of Usury.
7. 7.CHAP. VI. Of Customs and Free Ports.
8. 8.CHAP. VII. Of Poll-money.
9. 9.CHAP. VIII. Of Lotteries.
10. 10.CHAP. IX. Of Benevolence.
11. 11.CHAP. X. Of Penalties.
12. 12.CHAP. XI. Of Monopolies and Offices.
13. 13.CHAP. XII. Of Tythes.
14. 14.CHAP. XIII. Of several smaller wayes of levying Money.
15. 15.CHAP. XIV. Of raising, depressing, or embasing of Money.
16. 16.CHAP. XV. Of Excize. — Errata.

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