An essay how to raise above six hundred thousand pounds per ann. by a equal and easy tax. Humbly submitted to the consideration of the Honourable House of Commons. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B22574 of text T67271 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B22574 Wing E3284A Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.6[47] ESTC T67271 ocm99894987

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 eng Taxation -- England -- Early works to 1800. Hides and skins industry -- Licenses -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. eebo An essay how to raise above six hundred thousand pounds per ann. by a equal and easy tax. : Humbly submitted to the consideration of the Honourable Ho n/a 1703 2 866 1 0 0 0 0 0 11.55 C The rate of 11.55 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-03 Sampled and proofread 2014-03 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
An Essay how to raise above Six Hundred Thousand Pounds per Ann. by a Equal and Easy Tax . Humbly submitted to the consideration of the Honourable the House of Commons .

IT is proposed , That all Neat , Calf and Slinck Hides ; Sheep and Lamb Skins in the Raw be appropriated to the use of the Government .

Which Hides and Skins will raise the above summ is demonstrable thus , viz.

  l. s . d . That in this Kingdom there was computed 1175951 Houses , which paid to the Chimney-money ( besides Alms-houses and Poor , which were excepted ) and compute but one Beef to be eaten in one year in half the Houses as paid to the said Tax , one with the other , the Hides of which are sold from 5 s . to 20 s . but at 8 s . per Hide they produce 235190 4 0 Eight Sheep to be eaten in each House for half the said Houses in one year , the Skins of which are sold from 8 d . to 5 s . but at 12 d . per Skin , they produce 235190 4 0 Three Cal●es to be eaten in each House for half the said Houses in one year , the Hides of which are sold from 8 d . to 3 s . but at 12 d . per Hide they produce 88196 6 6 Two Lambs to be eaten in each House for half the said Houses in one year . the Skins of which at 4 d . per Skin , produce 19599 3 8 The Beef kill'd for the Sea-service , and all the Fresh-meat eaten by our Sea-men and Foreigners when in Harbour , and what they take for Victualling their near and foreign Voyages , may be computed one eighth part of the above account , which produce 72271 19 9½ Summ Total 650447 17 11½

The Hides and Skins of the aforesaid Cattel that may dye , are not included in the above account .

The methods for managing the whole , with Safety to the Government , and Ease to the Subject , are very obvious , and any Objections can be fully answer'd , but too long to insert here .

The Advantages of this Tax .

1st , A Gentleman of 800 l. per annum paid , or ought to have paid to the 2 s . in the pound Land Tax 80 l. but in this , which may amount to as much as that did , he pays but for his Eatables of Beef , Mutton , Veal and Lamb ; which four kinds , proportionable to a Family Expence , is not above one eighth part of the whole ; so , instead of paying for 800 l. he pays but for one hundred ( and not that , except the whole is expneded ) and instead of paying 80 l. he pays but 10 l. per an . to this Tax ; and by limiting the Government to sell the Hides and Skins at a certain price , will reduce the Leather Manufacture to easie terms , and save considerable in the year in the Leather Harnesses , and other Leather Wearables , and encourage the Exportation of the same .

2d , It cannot fall on Land , for the Butcher will give the same price to the Breeder and Grazier , and be content with the same profit then as now ; ( for 't is only the Consumer that pays ) and one farthing per pound advance on the Carcass will make the Butcher amends for the loss of the Hide and Skin , and the number of Butchers will oblige them to sell at a reasonable profit , what they deal in being so hazardous to keep .

3d , That the number of Tanners , and their dependance on their Trades , will induce them to buy , at a reasonable price , which being by this duty reduced to more certainty , will be great incouragement to them , by reason more will be exported than formerly .

4th , That a great summ will come in weekly , and the whole Years Revenue answer'd into the Exchequer in a few days after the year is expired , whereby a great deal of Interest will be saved .

5th , That the Collecting it will be with less charge than any other Duty , which answer so great a Fund , by reason it is not liable to such Frauds and Concealments , as some other Revenues are .

6th , It will be the most equal , for Tradesmen and Foreigners will pay as much as Gentlemen , proportionable to what they spend .

It is presum'd , That the number killed , and the value of the Hides and Skins will amount to a considerable summ more than is here set down .

An ESSAY

How to raise above Six Hundred Thousand Pounds per Ann. by an Equal and Easie Tax .