The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person. The Edinburgh Annual Register - Page 330edited by - 1811Full view - About this book
| 1811 - 854 pages
...quantity to be paid, are none of them clear or plain to the contributor, or to any other per. son ; whereas it is an established maxim of taxation, that...the tax which each individual is bound to pay ought tfc be certain, and not arbitrary ; and the time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to... | |
| Adam Smith - 1811 - 542 pages
...tax falling unequally even upon that particular fort of private revenue which is affected by it. II. The tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain... | |
| David Ricardo - 1821 - 560 pages
...support of the government, as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities. 2. " The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain and not arbitrary. 3. " Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner in which it is most likely to be convenient... | |
| 1825 - 424 pages
...that is, in proportion 'to the revenue they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. 2. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1826 - 302 pages
...his family, the other enjoins no such necessity, for his family will enjoy the income by descent. "2. The tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought to be certain and not arbitrary." "3. Every tax ought to be levied at the time and in the manner in which it is likely to be most convenient... | |
| 1826 - 1138 pages
...people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state. 3. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, and the quantity to be paid, ought to be clear and plain... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - 1827 - 542 pages
...people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state. 3. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, and the quantity to be paid, ought to be clear and plain... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1891 - 1086 pages
...taxed of any of the people in proportion to their means, The second principle of sound taxation is that— " The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary." Now the Paddy Tax, as we have seen> has been raised in the most capricious and arbitrary fashion. One... | |
| 1831 - 202 pages
...support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities. 2nd. The Tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought to be certain. 3rd. Every Tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the Poor,... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1847 - 892 pages
...respective abilities — that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy ; 2dly, That the tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to bo paid, ought all to bo clear and plain... | |
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