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. 1912 Excerpt: ...revenues from the occupation of land, (C) annuities, dividends, and interest payable in the United Kingdom on government securities, (D) annual profits arising to persons residing in the United Kingdom from any kind of property wheresoever situated, or from any profession, trade, employment, or vocation wheresoever ...
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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. 1912 Excerpt: ...revenues from the occupation of land, (C) annuities, dividends, and interest payable in the United Kingdom on government securities, (D) annual profits arising to persons residing in the United Kingdom from any kind of property wheresoever situated, or from any profession, trade, employment, or vocation wheresoever carried on; on annual profits arising to persons not resident in the United Kingdom from property wheresoever situated, or from any profession, trade, employment, or vocation exercised in the United Kingdom; and on interest of money, annuities, and other annual profits and gains, and (E) on incomes derived from public offices, or employments of profit, and on annuities, pensions, or stipends payable by her majesty, or out of the public revenue of the United Kingdom: --because personal receipts falling in these different schedules have been separately assessed, the British income tax supplies no answer to the question as to the distribution of incomes.1 Schedules D and E include what the English know as " business and professional " incomes. In the fiscal year 1906-1907, there were 904,888 assessments of individuals in these two classes. The population of the Kingdom was about forty-four million, or, roughly, nine million families. Can it then be held that about one-tenth of the British households enjoy incomes of 160 or more? The answer depends on (1) the number of individuals figuring in both schedules D and E, (2) the number of persons assessed in the first three classes but not in the last two, (3) the number of persons enjoying revenues from several sources, aggregating over f 160 but each 1 Adams, Finance, p. 477. less than that sum, and (4) the extent of evasions. There is also, now, a "Super-Tax" on incomes in exce...
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