Lanterna Rally

Author: Great Britain. Royal Taxation

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 9781230037899

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...and in the result they framed not only a scale of deductions but a set of instruc" tions for the guidance of the several Union Assessment Committees in making assessments " which they were recommended to adopt. At this conference a resolution was adopted in "favour of only one basis of assessment for County Rate, Poor Law, and all other purposes. " Upon this resolution being submitted to the Suffolk Joint Committee they adopted a similar " resolution, but extended it to Imperial taxation. Since then, upon the initiative of the Sufiolk " Joint Committee, the County Councils' Association have adopted a similar resolution, and several " County Councils have expressed themselves in favour thereof, and others have the matter under " consideration, while I have heard of only two County Councils having decided to take no action " in the matter." " I think we have here a practical suggestion which might be followed up, namely, that County " Councils should be empowered to fix a binding scale of deductions, and that they should be able "to do this through a committee, and that there should be power to place on such committee a "limited number of representatives appointed by the Union Assessment Committees. In this way "it would be possible to get some degree of uniformity and equity as between union and " union in the matter of their assessments, and possibly the double assessment for Union and " County rate purposes might be avoided." " I believe such an uniform scale of deductions would be an improvement in the present system. " It would also be an advantage if some degree of permanency in assessments could be...