Hansard's Parliamentary Debates Volume 190 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...taxes on real and personal property, on licences, and on windows--a Btuall percentage--a percentage added to and not deducted from the Imperial taxes went into the municipal treasury. Me did not Bee how we could avail ourselves of similar resources, though possibly there was to be found in the idea the germ of a plan which might be feasible; but it was too distant at the present moment; and still they had to ask, where the money was to come from? He believed there was a Motion before the House for the continuance of the Coal and Wine duties. But the proceeds of those duties had already been mortgaged as far as the year 1882; and, consequently, if their continuance were guaranteed even for another ten years the sum raised would be very small--so small, indeed, that it would be swallowed up in the first improvements contemplated by the Metropolitan Board of Works, even if it should prove more than sufficient to defray the expenditure in connection with schemes--the Bills for which had already been read a first time in that House. Then came the proposal, which had been introduced two years before, that a rate should be made on the owners of rateable property in the metropolis. Now, that was a tax that would certainly relieve the occupiers to some extent--those, ot all events, who possessed leases--though he doubted whether it would relieve those not so protected, who held from week to week VOL. CXC. XHHLD SEBLE3. or quarter to quarter. It was, however, a measure which appeared to be just in itself, and he felt sure that it would again come before the House. He thought it was but fair that those whose property would be benefited by the improvements should contribute towards the expense; and though it might be argued that the tenant received the more immediate a...