The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 29
The Taxes in New Zealand
Contents
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- The Taxes. — Part I. — Who Pays? Who Doesn't Pay?
- What Taxes do you Pay?
- What Taxes are Collected?
- The Land Fund
- Its Liabilities p. 4
- Ordinary Revenue
- Indirect Taxation p. 5
- Property and Income
- Private Land Ownership
- Working Men's Income p. 6
- Necessary Expenses
- Taxes on Food p. 7
- Grain and Flour
- Rice for Example
- Protective Duty
- Loss and Gain p. 8
- Other Food Taxes
- Taxes on other Necessaries p. 9
- Comparative Burden p. 11
- Large Untaxed Incomes p. 12
- An Instance
- Banks and other Money Lenders p. 13
- Wrong and Right
- Taxes on Superfluities
- Comparison
- Taxes on Carriage
- Objections of Protectionists p. 16
- 1. Taxes On Food p. 17
- Other Protective Taxes
- Part II. — Who Ought to Pay?
- Present Unfairness p. 18
- Proposed Reforms. — Taxes on Property and Income p. 19
- Mode of Assessment
- The Objection to "Inquisitorial" Taxation
- Other Objections p. 21
- By Members of Parliament
- Replies to Objections p. 22
- Alleged Unproductiveness of Tax p. 24
- Absurdity of Estimate
- British Landed Income
- Approximate Estimate p. 25
- Income not from Land p. 26
- Limit of Exemption from Income Tax p. 27
- Probable Produce of New Taxes
- Exempted Income p. 28
- Share of Land Fund
- History of Land-Sharking p. 29
- New Zealand in 1839 p. 30
- In Victoria, 1835 p. 32
- In The Fijis, 1870
- In New Zealand, 1840—1877 p. 33
- Tax Proposed p. 38
- Part III. — Taxation Reform, and how to get it? p. 40
- The Taxes. — Part I. — Who Pays? Who Doesn't Pay?