History of Taxation Vol 6

A set of eight volumes, these texts are designed to cover the literature of taxation from the late-17th century to the end of the 19th century. The writings focus on a number of themes, reflecting in turn the problems which revenue raisers have encountered over two centuries. Volume VI Introduction to Volume VI How should an income tax be levied? Considered in a letter to the Rt. Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1852) The Income Tax (1853) The Income and Property Tax (1853) Property and Income Tax. The Present State of the Question (1853) Reform or Reject the Income Tax. Objections to a Reform of the Income Tax Considered, in Two Letters to the Editor of the Times (1853) Direct Taxation; an Enquiry (1860) An Article, Practical and Theoretical, on Taxation (1860) Income-Tax Reform (1862)