The Match Tax: A Problem of Finance (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Jevons, William Stanley

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ISBN 10: 1330620542 ISBN 13: 9781330620540

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Match Tax: A Problem of Finance

It is worthy of remark that 'The Spectator,' which had apparently bestowed more inquiry upon the subject than any other newspaper coming under my notice, was rather in favour of the proposed duty. The fact that this Match Tax was a favourite notion of so eminent and enlightened a free-trade financier as Mr. Wells, ought to have secured for the proposal a more careful and respectful examination on the part of the English press and public. The tax is also likely to be adopted in Italy and France. Hence I do not think it superfluous to take up the subject, and, with the advantage of time for inquiry and deliberation, to attempt to measure at their true value the numerous objections brought against the tax.

I cannot believe that the present Government, a cabinet of financiers, as it has been called, could have made this unexpected proposal without some good reasons. It must be a very strong Government indeed that could afford to impose new taxes out of mere gaiety of heart. But new taxes must usually be imposed with some degree of suddenness and secrecy, otherwise the first year's revenue would be wholly lost, and most unfair profits would fell to those who contrive to gain the earliest information.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330620542
• ISBN 13: 9781330620540
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 70