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Tax assessment - Great Britain - Early works to 1800

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    The country-Man's proposal or, a dialogue between a gentleman and a farmer. Wherein the farmer shews how this nation may raise the Queen 20000l every day in the Year, and neither have Malt nor Salt Tax, nor charge any Mans Land above 2 s. in the Pound, and to maintain this War with France Twenty Years, and the Nation not one Half-Penny the worse. The second edition corrected and Enter'd according to Act of Parliament By Richard Cooper, Farmer in the County of Nottingham.

    Cooper, Richard, farmer in the county of Nottingham. | Date: 1711
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    Observations relative to the taxes upon windows or lights . A commutation of these taxes being also suggested, and a Tax assessed from the internal capaciousness, or Tonnage, of houses, pointed out as a more eligible mode of taxation. To which are added, observations on the shop-tax, and the discontent caused by it, ----- Pag. 72 Short Observations on the late Act relative to Hawkers and Pedlars, ---- 100 a hint for the improvement of the metropolis, -105 By John Lewis de Lolme, Advocate, L. L. D.

    De Lolme, Jean Louis, 1740-1806. | Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]

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