 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 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...arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, and the quantity to be paid, ought to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1891 - 1086 pages
...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 - Periodicals - 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...of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to bo paid, ought all to bo clear and plain to the contributor and every other person ; 3dly, That every... | |
 | John Wade - Church and state - 1832 - 730 pages
...this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation. IV. The tax which every individual is bound to pay ought to be certain and...the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor and to every other person. When it is otherwise, the tax-payer... | |
 | Nathaniel Chipman - Constitutional law - 1833 - 404 pages
...in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. " II. The tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought...ought to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person. " III. Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner in which it... | |
 | Benjamin Sayer - Income tax - 1833 - 502 pages
...observation or neglect of this maxim consists " what is called the equality or inequality of Taxation. 2nd. " The Tax which each individual is bound to pay ought...certain and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the man" ner of payment, and the quantity to be paid, ought all to be " clear and plain to the contributor... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - Business & Economics - 1835 - 334 pages
...observation or neglect of this maxim consists, what is called the equality or inequality of taxation. " II. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought...manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person. The certainty of what each... | |
 | John Wade - Great Britain - 1835 - 862 pages
...this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation. IV. The tax which every individual is bound to pay ought to be certain and...the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor and to eveiy other person. When it is otherwise, the tax-payer... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 pages
...particular tax falling unequally upon that particular sort of private revenue which is affected by it. II. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought...manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person. Where it is otherwise, every... | |
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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. 
