 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.  Political economy reading book - Page 227by sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave - 1882Full view - About this book
 | Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 502 pages
...or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation. . . . " 2. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought...payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear aud plain to the contributor, and to every other person. Where it is otherwise, every person subject... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1857 - 610 pages
...observation or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation. " 2. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought...plain to the contributor, and to every other person. Where it is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the taxgatherer,... | |
 | Charles Tennant - Taxation - 1857 - 510 pages
...possible, in proportion to the property which they respectively enjoy, and the protection of the State. 2. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be fixed and certain. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to... | |
 | Periodicals - 1876 - 844 pages
...proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the State, &c. " Second. — The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought...plain to the contributor, and to every other person, &c. " Third. — Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely... | |
 | Charles Tennant - England - 1862 - 746 pages
...is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the State. 2. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought...plain to the contributor, and to every other person. 3. Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1862 - 628 pages
...observation or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality ot taxation. " 2. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought...clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other persou. Where it is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1862 - 878 pages
...is, iu proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. 2. 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 all to be clear and plain to the contributor and to every other... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1862 - 894 pages
...is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. 2. 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 all to be clear and plain to the contributor and to every other... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1862 - 874 pages
...bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary ; the time of payment, the manner of payment, and the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and...plain to the contributor and to every other person. 3. Every tax ought to be levied at the time, and in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Debts, Public - 1863 - 548 pages
...neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation. Second. — " The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought...plain to the contributor, and to every other person. Where it is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put, more or less, in the power of the tax-gatherer,... | |
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